We're playing with enabling IPv6 support, and I've found an interesting bug
in IO::Socket I thought I'd let others be aware of. If in your /etc/hosts
file, the IPv6 addresses are listed prior to the IPv4 host address,
IO::Socket will time out. For example, if I have:
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
fe00::0 ipv6-localnet
ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes
ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters
10.11.12.13 myipv4-host.name.domain myipv4-host
IP::Socket will fail when used by Net::LDAP
If I move the 10.11.12.13 address prior to all of the IPv6 pieces, it works
fine. Other IPv4 tools work without issue. So if you see weird behavior
out of Net::LDAP on IPv6 enabled systems even if you are only dealing with
IPv4, this may be the cause.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
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