Ralf Schmitt added the comment: Daniel is pretty much spot on, thanks for that!
Regarding the use case: I disabled IPv6 system wide when building packages via gentoo's USE flag. I didn't do anything in order to configure IPv6 or remove it. My local network interface having a local link address is a result of that. I've been told multiple times to fix my setup. And I said multiple times that the setup is not at fault here. > schmir expects that --disable-ipv6 would "really" disable IPv6 > *everywhere* in Python, which is wrong. Python may still get IPv6 > adddresses from getaddrinfo() if the system does somehow support > IPv6. I did not say that. In fact I wrote in msg172729: """I didn't request that the switch disables any code that somehow deals with IPv6. I'm just talking about that one function!""" > Python may still get IPv6 adddresses from getaddrinfo() if the > system does somehow support IPv6. That would be nice. But that's currently not the case. see http://bugs.python.org/issue16208 haypo, you also keep talking of an initial problem, which you assume must be there somewhere in my network - which I try to workaround with --disable-ipv6. There is no problem on my side that I'm trying to fix. It's just that I have disabled IPv6 via gentoo's USE flags, since I don't use it. I've also been telling this multiple times, I don't know why I'm being completely ignored here. > "wont fix" is the correct status for this issue: we agree that there > is a bug, but it will not be fixed, because --disable-ipv6 is the > wrong solution. again. it can't be a solution since there is no problem unless this option is being used and then there's a problem in python. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7735> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
