Evolution always attempts IPv6...

Ulrich Drepper drepper at redhat.com
Thu Oct 16 15:51:40 UTC 2003


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Benny Amorsen wrote:
> In that case Evolution attempts to contact my server over
> IPv6, even though I only have a link-local IPv6 address. This obviously
> fails, but Evolution does not try to get through on IPv4 after the
> failure.

I assume evolution does use getaddrinfo().  Somebody should make sure
that the AI_ADDRCONFIG is used (available only on modern systems but FC
has it).  AI_ADDRCONFIG avoids the IPv6 addresses if the system has no
IPv6 interfaces.

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