On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 03:17:20PM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > What is required for "out of the box" IPv6 support in Debian? When > upgrading netbase it asked me if I wanted to include IPv6 addresses in my > /etc/hosts. Why wouldn't I want to include IPv6? Do packages break (in an > RC bug way) with IPv6 addresses in /etc/hosts? I'm guessing that there's > just too many packages would break in non-RC bug ways, but I haven't tried > any.
Until recently, I wasn't using v6, and had it disabled in my kernel. However, I did let netbase put v6 addresses for ip6-localhost, etc. into my /etc/hosts a long time ago (I knew v6 was the wave of the future...). I saw no breakage of anything because of the entries, even on a v4-only system. Admittedly, I didn't set up a wide variety of daemons that might have tried to do tricky things with the network, but I can attest that I didn't see any problems with any desktop, home LAN, exim, or ssh stuff. > When does it become time to do mass bug reports on packages that break > with IPv6? There might be a packages with bugs, but I would be surprised at having to do _mass_ bug reports. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , s.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC
