[140417] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Tue May 10 21:59:57 2011
To: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 May 2011 10:39:45 +1000."
<1305074385.18376.566.camel@karl>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:57:35 +1000
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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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