On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 01:25:44 +0200 Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Christophe Prévotaux > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Could someone please integrate this patch in busybox please ? > > > > Please note I am not the author of this patch. But it is a very much needed > > patch for people who have only ipv6 connectivity. > > > > https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/12167/0001-busybox-make-ntpd-prefer-IPv6-addresses.patch > > > > > :ntpd uses host2sockaddr to get the first address returned by DNS and > does so only once. > :Since the first address is often an IPv4 address, this causes ntpd to > fail in IPv6 only environments. > > Fix either your DNS (or your IPv4 routing) then. > If IPv4 doesn't work on your network, why do your DNS server > responds with such addresses? Fixing each and every app > to work around this is not feasible. I do not think you understand the problem, maybe I did not explain it well enough. I am using an IPv6 system and ntpd is bound to an IPv6 only interface in my scenario, therefore in that case the DNS used does not matter. But even if I could fix all the DNSes of the planet and resolver, but don't you think that what you are suggesting would also would break DNSSEC in a major way hence I do not think , you proposed workaround is a correct one. Even if my first proposed solution was incorrect, would it be possible to have like a -6 flag on the ntpd of busybox to make it use only IPv6, is that something possible ? -- Christophe Prévotaux _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
