inn2: IPv6 quirks

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On ma, 2005-04-11 at 15:43 +0200, Klaus Alexander Seistrup wrote:
> Now if news6 and news4 tries to do peering, then the news flow will
> only
> succeed in one direction, namely from news6 to news4.  Why?  Because
> when
> news4's inn2 sees an AAAA record for news6, then it will never try the
> IPv4
> address, even if it gets "network unreachable" or "no route to host"
> by
> trying the IPv6 address (news4 has no IPv6 interface, remember?).

Why does gethostbyname() or whatever call is used return an ipv6 address
on an ipv4-only host? I don't see this as a quirk in INN, if it get's an
ipv6 address, it should be able to use it. If it has no ipv6 interface,
why does it get an ipv6 address?
-- 
Dennis K.
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 -> Only in the morning.
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