Hi! I would like to say a few words about ipv6 handling of some few programs.
Are YOU using ipv6 ? No ? Well, me neither. It's a nice thing and I will use it if I have to, but up to now, everything here is ipv4. Some programs (I only know ssh and exim but I bet there are more...) are "ready for the future" and support ipv6. Thats is surely a good thing. Fun ends, if I can't tell a program NOT to use ipv6 by default. ssh is an example: If i use plain ssh command, say "ssh marvin", I can wait for ages until the connection is done, because an ipv6 query causes a dns timeout. So far so bad, but if I use DoD, this even costs money. Ok, I can use "ssh -4" and i have an alias set to this. But why on earth is there no parameter for the config-file ? ssh has a big set of commands, one more wouldn't hurt. With this poll, I send a question about exim concerning this matter and I hope I can forbit exim to use ipv6. Since I didn't find anything in the docs I'm not too positive about this... Well, enough with it. Just had to say it and of course I will happily change my mind if someone tells me "good news" :)-- Markus Grunwald Registered Linux User Nr 101577 http://counter.li.org http://www.grunwald.2xs.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
