Control: severity -1 normal
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:13:07AM +0000, Bob Ham wrote:
> When setting "option inet6" in /etc/resolv.conf, IO::Socket::INET
> cannot connect properly, particularly to popcon.debian.org:
>
> $ perl -MIO::Socket::INET -e 'IO::Socket::INET->new("popcon.debian.org:80")
> or die "$@";'
> IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname 'popcon.debian.org:80' at -e line 1.
>
> When commenting out "option inet6", it works fine:
>
> $ perl -MIO::Socket::INET -e 'IO::Socket::INET->new("popcon.debian.org:80")
> or die "$@";'
> $
I agree that this is a problem, but I'm not sure whether it's a reasonable
expectation for ipv4-only software to work with this option being set;
the manpage for resolv.conf does mention that breakage is to be expected.
A more pragmatic solution might be to use IO::Socket::IP instead.
Dominic.
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