Re: [evolution-patches] Re: [gene-pool] [Fwd: [Fwd: evolution and ipv6]]

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 21:41, Not Zed wrote:
> You have to wonder, why does a host have an ipv6 address if it doesn't
> work?  ...

Just because a host has an IPv6 address doesn't mean that you have an
IPv6 interface to get to it over.  I'm sure there's a case where the
behavior makes sense, but I have no idea what it is ;)  I'm sure it's
buried deep within SuSv2 somewhere. 

> I guess the patch is ok, although i can't tell you any more about it
> than a c compiler would (i..e it should build).

It looks fine to me as well (similar to mine ;), although it doesn't
retry with AI_ADDRCONFIG if retval == EAI_BADFLAGS.  I'm not sure how
often that's likely to occur, but Ulrich seemed to imply that you should
be sure to do it.

> BTW is this will ipv6 compiled in or out?  If in, then i didn't think
> that was a supported configuration anyway ...

It will only happen with IPv6 compiled in, but IPv6 is actually starting
to get used in the world at large, so compiling with IPv6 support is
becoming more important.  I turned on IPv6 for rawhide builds last week
-- I can turn it off for this release if anyone feels strongly that way,
but for the release after this, I don't think I'll be able to fend it
off. 

Jeremy