I've Done A Really Bad Thing

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

On 23/05/13 16:29, Tom H wrote:
> 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...

Deja vu again! Back in the mid-70s we XBM terminal developers frequently 
had to change our code because the arrogant mainframe (if 1900 + George 
qualifies) people either couldn't read, or understand the XBM (eXtended 
Basic Mode) specifications.