Subj : My turn for testing IPv6...
To   : Andrew Leary
From : RJ Clay
Date : Sat Aug 15 2015 11:14 am

Hi Andrew!

15 Aug 15 10:23, I wrote to you:

 RC> 09 Aug 15 13:54, I wrote to you:
 RC>> 02 Aug 15 16:35, you wrote to me:

 AL>>> MBSE will use IPv6 first, and then fall back to IPv4 if
 AL>>> necessary, assuming that the hostname has both A and AAAA
 AL>>> records.

 RC>>    What else might be needed for that?  Because on a Debian 8
 RC>> install of v1.04, a poll attempt to your system went via IPv4.
 RC>> (I'll check the settings I was using, and follow up as necessary
 RC>> in the MBSE echo...)

 RC>   I tried your 1:320/219 node as well and it still went out via IPv4.
 RC> Is it really MBSE that "will use IPv6 first"? Or it perhaps related to
 RC> OS settings?  The new system hosting 1:120/545 is a 64bit system on
 RC> Debian 8.

  Turned out to be an OS setting, at least on my system; I'd forgotten that 
I'd set it to default to IPv4 connections (/etc/gai.conf) when I first set the 
system up at home (so I could work on it; that's not where it's now deployed) 
because I still do not have reliable IPv6 connectivity there.





Jame



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