On 2026-09-09 12:40:41 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2026 11:17:16 +0200 > Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote: > > The issue is more that applications hide errors from DNS requests, > > giving a misleading error message saying that the IPv6 connection > > failed though the real error was IPv4 resolving. I already had > > this issue with postfix (due to a bug that lead to an obsolete > > /etc/resolv.conf file in postfix chroot): > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964769 > > > > Error messages should be accurate to that the users can find the > > cause of failures. > > You're living in the past. These days it's 'Oops, something went wrong'.
... when one gets an error message. Applications also tend to not generate error messages or to hide them (I noticed that with Firefox a few hours ago). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
