I've Done A Really Bad Thing

[Tom H]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 May 2013 01:38, Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:
>>
>> Disabling IPv6 was the recommended solution for these problems in
>> many instances.
>
> I have /never/ encountered that. I used to disable it as a matter of
> course in the early part of the century, as no networks that any of my
> or my clients' machines ever used supported it, and thus it was
> needless bloat.

There was a problem in 2008/2009 (IIRC!) because of a glibc ipv6
change. The developers involved said that their change was the
technically correct one and that the Fedora and Ubuntu users (other
distributions must've also had issues) hitting this bug should have
their ISPs and router manufacturers fix their faulty DNS
implementations...