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bug #22755: wget should use --prefer-family=none by default

Submitter:  Bernhard Schmidt <herrsausm>
Submitted:  Fri 28 Mar 2008 01:43:00 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Feature Request Severity:  2 - Minor
Priority:  4 Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  1.10.2 Operating System:  None
Reproducibility:  Every Time Fixed Release:  1.12
Planned Release:  1.12 Regression:  No
Work Required:  None Patch Included:  No
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Sat 17 May 2008 10:30:54 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Resolved for mainline in fee9d6516026.

Micah Cowan <micahcowan>
Fri 02 May 2008 12:10:27 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Sounds like maybe we should give it a whirl. If we run into problems, we could always back it back out again (or just ask people to set the appropriate rc command).

Micah Cowan <micahcowan>
Fri 25 Apr 2008 12:02:08 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Of course, the question is whether these improvements will have been made on many of the systems on which Wget is used. The manuals currently says:


     This avoids spurious errors and connect attempts when accessing
     hosts that resolve to both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses from IPv4
     networks.  For example, `www.kame.net' resolves to
     `2001:200:0:8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085' and to `203.178.141.194'.
     When the preferred family is `IPv4', the IPv4 address is used
     first; when the preferred family is `IPv6', the IPv6 address is
     used first; if the specified value is `none', the address order
     returned by DNS is used without change.


Will ping the list on this one.

Micah Cowan <micahcowan>
Fri 28 Mar 2008 01:43:00 AM UTC, original submission:  

Current default installations of wget prefer IPv4 over IPv6. This is a different behaviour than you see from most networking applications and thwarts all improvements that have recently gone in the ordering of getaddrinfo() results (RFC3484).

Please make --prefer-family=none default

Bernhard Schmidt <herrsausm>

 

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file #15600:  prefer-family.diff added by kparnell (457B - I have attached a patch reflecting this change.)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2008-05-17 micahcowan StatusConfirmed Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Fixed ReleaseNone 1.12
    2008-05-04 kparnell Attached File- Added prefer-family.diff, #15600
    2008-05-02 micahcowan StatusNeeds Discussion Confirmed
    2008-04-25 micahcowan StatusConfirmed Needs Discussion
    2008-04-23 micahcowan StatusNeeds Discussion Confirmed
    2008-03-28 micahcowan Severity3 - Normal 2 - Minor
        Priority5 - Normal 4
        StatusNone Needs Discussion
        Planned ReleaseNone 1.12

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