Thoughts about ipv6 white listing
Tore Anderson
tore.anderson at redpill-linpro.com
Sun Dec 5 00:09:42 CET 2010
* George Bonser
> The clients either will or will not have v6. If they do not have v6,
> they will request an A record. If they have v6 they will request an
> AAAA record.
Don't be so sure about that. It depends on whether or not the
application is passing the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag to getaddrinfo().
Mozilla Firefox, for instance, does not, and will therefore request AAAA
records even though the machine only has link-local IPv6 addresses.
See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614526
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Tore Anderson
Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
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