[Libguestfs] [PATCH] appliance: Disable ipv6 in the appliance because qemu usernet is ipv4 only

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Fri Jan 24 11:36:52 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:55:26AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> > However I don't understand why disabling IPv6 should be necessary.  If
> > sites resolve to AAAA+A records, then presumably it's going to choose
> > the A (IPv4) route since no IPv6 route exists.  If a site resolves to
> > only an AAAA record, then it's not reachable whatever we do.
> 
> For me the code tries to reach the ipv6 address, which wont work.

Do you have a demonstration of this?

Rich.

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