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.
