severity 268631 wishlist tag 268631 + wontfix thanks On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:59:16AM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > > ... It doesn't belong in APT, it should be a global, system-wide > > preference. I don't feel like adjusting the preferences of every > > single network program whenever I switch from a good IPv6 to a bad > > IPv6 network. > > I absolutely agree. > > > Barak: if IPv6 is much slower than IPv4, please adjust the > > preferences in /etc/gai.conf. Just say > > > > precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 100 > > That configuration file is impossible for non-super-uber-expert > programmers to find. > > $ man -k ipv6 | egrep gai | wc -l > 0 > > $ man -k gai.conf > gai.conf (5) - getaddrinfo(3) configuration file > > Preferring IPv4 over IPv6 should be the default. If there is any > non-silly argument for not making it the default, I have not heard it.
IPv6 should be the default, that's the only way to do a transition to IPv6. Also it is mandated by a lot of RFC. They are plenty of other good reasons of preferring IPv6 over IPv4. It's not going to change. Tagging the bug as wontfix. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
