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.

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