On Mar 3, 2011, at 12:03 , Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:56 PM -0600 Graham Barr <gb...@pobox.com>
> wrote:
>
>>> After a bit of debugging, the root problem is Perl's implementation of
>>> inet_aton. I've filed a bug with Perl core.
>>
>> I think it is partly some fault of Net::LDAP
>>
>> Net::LDAP will use IO::Socket::INET or IO::Socket::INET6 to connect
>> depending on if the inet6 option is passed to connect
>>
>> ::INET will only connect to v4 addresses but I believe ::INET6 will
>> connect to either. But there is no guarantee ::INET6 exists
>>
>> Hm, I wonder if we should just select the default connecting class by
>>
>> my $connect_class = eval { require IO::Socket::INET6 } ?
>> "IO::Socket::INET6" : "IO::Socket::INET";
>
> Hi Graham,
>
> That may indeed fix Net::LDAP's behavior, but any other Perl module out there
> that ends up calling IO::Socket::INET which then goes and calls inet_aton has
> the possibility of hitting this issue. So I do think it would be great if it
> gets fixed at the Perl core level as well. ;)
But ::INET itself, IIRC, makes assumptions that it is connecting to a v4
address. so I do not think just changing inet_aton will solve the problem
Graham.
