[ds6] New to IPv6...

[Peter Bieringer]

--On Tuesday, November 04, 2003 05:24:01 PM +0100 Mauro Tortonesi
<mtortonesi at ing.unife.it> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Kirk Bollinger wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure about windows but in linux you can configure the order for
>> dns resolution ie v4 or v6 first in nsswitch.conf ie->
>> 
>> hosts:          files dns6
>> 
>> I believe this will try v6 first and then v4 resolution.
> 
> i didn't know this. it is indeed a very interesting feature :-)

That's depending on glibc I think, I've heard about SuSE-Linux (since today
also known as Novell-Linux....) requires that switch.

On RHL systems, IPv6-enabled clients always use IPv6 first.
And for resolving, if an IPv6 address is given in /etc/resolv.conf, glibc
tries this.

        Peter
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