On Thursday 21 August 2008 04:04:46 am Amos Jeffries wrote: > Steve Snyder wrote: > > Hello. > > > > [I am not a subscriber to the dev list, so please CC me with any > > responses. Thank you.] > > > > I am playing with a 3.HEAD-20080820 build of Squid, to use it's > > support for IPv6. It seems to be working well (maybe a little slow > > relative to v2.7S4, both on Linux) except for one irritation. > > Given a site with both A and AAAA records, Squid always opts for > > the IPv4 connection. > > > > It seems that a lot of predominantly-IPv6 sites also maintain an > > IPv4 address, just so they can tell you to get on board with IPv6. > > For sites with only AAAA records, Squid does a great job of getting > > the content to me. > > > > Even the use of the square-bracket scheme (e.g. > > http://[www.kame.net]/ ) isn't enough to coax Squid into IPv6 land > > when a IPv4 address is also found by DNS look-up. > > > > How can I instruct Squid to prefer the IPv6 address over an IPv4 > > address? > > Should not be. I coded it specifically to prefer v6 if working. [snip]
It turned out to be a browser caching problem. Once I cleared my cache all was well. Sorry for the false alarm, and thank you for all your efforts on getting IPv6 support into Squid.
