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Re: Yahoo and IPv6


From: Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:57:35 +1000


In message <1305074385.18376.566.camel@karl>, Karl Auer writes:
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 10:19 +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
For the record Apple's current iChat (the OS (10.6.7) is completely
up to date) fails such a test.  It will try IPv6 and not fallback
to IPv4.  End users shouldn't be seeing these sorts of errors.

Is that possibly a failure of the underlying resolver library? Do other
applications on the same platform behave correctly?

It doesn't matter where in the system the fault is.  It's all Apple
components.  If the application doesn't get and try all addresses
it is broken.  The nameservers have all addresses in their caches.
MacOS's local cache have all addresses in it.

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