can we disable AAAA queries in the resolver ?

2003-08-02 Thread Luigi Rizzo
hi, recently i have been bitten by a problem which might be already known, but still... quite a few apps (sendmail and ssh among them) seem to always try an query if compiled with ipv6 support, and even if the kernel does not support ipv6, tcpdump shows queries going out to the

Re: can we disable AAAA queries in the resolver ?

2003-08-02 Thread Lev Walkin
Luigi Rizzo wrote: hi, recently i have been bitten by a problem which might be already known, but still... quite a few apps (sendmail and ssh among them) seem to always try an query if compiled with ipv6 support, and even if the kernel does not support ipv6, tcpdump shows queries going

Re: can we disable AAAA queries in the resolver ?

2003-08-02 Thread David Malone
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:52:00PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: My understanding is that there are multiple buggy components here: my ISP's nameserver certainly shouldn't behave so badly on requests, and the applications should not bother asking queries when the kernel has no ipv6

Re: can we disable AAAA queries in the resolver ?

2003-08-02 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:59:18AM +0100, David Malone wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:52:00PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: My understanding is that there are multiple buggy components here: my ISP's nameserver certainly shouldn't behave so badly on requests, and the applications should

Re: can we disable AAAA queries in the resolver ?

2003-08-02 Thread Gregory Neil Shapiro
i know, but what is happening is that all these applications (including sendmail and our ssh, for what matters) are broken in that they look for an record just for making a connection. Can you try this patch for sendmail? --- domain.c.orig Sat Aug 2 09:27:09 2003 +++ domain.c

Re: can we disable AAAA queries in the resolver ?

2003-08-02 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:59:18AM +0100 I heard the voice of David Malone, and lo! it spake thus: A significant number of these are ad servers, so after complaining to Doubleclick and getting no response, I've told my local name server that it is authorititive for doubleclick.net and given