IPv6 brokenness experiment, November results

[Doug Barton]

Christof Meerwald wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:50:01 +0100, Chris Hills wrote:
>> I recently updated Opera to 10.10-4742 on Linux x86 (qt4 shared) and it
>> now seems to prefer ipv4 when both ipv4 and ipv6 are available for the
>> website, from a host with global unicast addresses.
> 
> It's actually worse than that - IPv6 has essentially been disabled in Opera
> 10.10 for Linux (it can't even connect to IPv6 only sites like
> http://ipv6.google.com any more), see thread with msgid
> <slrnhh85ob.g4d.NOSPAM-seeMySig at msgid.cmeerw.org> in the opera.linux
> newsgroup.

In response to a message from a FreeBSD user on one of our lists
someone from Opera confirmed that there is a bug in 10.10 with their
fix to the IPv6 bug from earlier versions; and that they are working
on a fix to the new bug.


Stay tuned,

Doug

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