also sprach martin f krafft <[email protected]> [2010.08.28.1102 +0200]: > A good solution I found is to add > > precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 100 > > to /etc/gai.conf. This will make the host generally prefer v4 over > v6 connections, which makes a lot of sense for a machine running > backups over the network.
And use oping instead of ping for all hosts. There is a bug with it's ipv4/ipv6 preference (#594688), but that doesn't actually matter for this use case. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[email protected]> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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