Re: [IPv6 Users] IPv6 news - weekly summary

[Simon Leinen]

Graham Beneke writes:
 Is it just me that finds it a little ironic that this list still
 delivers its' mail through IPv4 only?

No, I find this a little lame too.  Note that the MX for @ipv6.org can
*accept* mail over IPv6.  So it's a pity it doesn't distribute outgoing
messages over IPv6 - this should be doable!
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Simon.
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Re: IPv6 name resolution on Solaris?

[Simon Leinen]

Mohacsi Janos writes:
 For Solaris youhave to enable separately the name resolution for IPv6:

 Putting ipv4/ipv6 addresses in
 /etc/inet/ipnodes

 and in /etc/nsswitch.conf Make sure 'ipnodes' line contains 'dns'
 entry so that IPv6 hostname lookup can be performed through DNS in
 case that resolution failed by looking up a local file.

 /etc/nsswitch.conf
 hosts:  files dns
 ipnodes:   files dns

 This is kind of brain damage in Solaris - why they invented ipnodes?

Because they wanted to avoid breaking things that assume the old
format of /etc/hosts? I rather like their approach of introducing a
new configuration file, instead of extending the twenty-year-old
syntax of semantics of the /etc/hosts file.  The ipnodes database
nicely parallels getaddrinfo().  (Although we could have just changed
gethostbyname() to return IPv6 addresses as well. :-)

Note that if you completely rely on DNS for name resolution, you don't
even have to put anything into /etc/inet/ipnodes.
-- 
Simon.

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