Safari on IPv6 ?

[Andy Davidson]

On 01/02/2010 10:50, Marco Hogewoning wrote:
>> We have seen a similar behaviour with most applications after upgrading
>> to MacOS X 10.6. It seems that the mdns-responder (?) of the system
>> which is responsible for all DNS lookups is broken. It sends out both A
>> and AAAA queries at the same time, but only seems to accept the first
>> (successful?) response it gets.
[...]
> I can confirm it is either 10.6 or safari 4...not that I dig through traffic logs every day, just happen to notice it.
[...]
> ssh seems to do the right thing, my ssh sessions are on 6 even tough the machine is listed with both AAAA and A but I might just got lucky on that one.

Oh no, this explains a change in behaviour that I have seen with xchat,
which seems to connect to a v6 or v4 host at almost random.  That's
really bad. :-(

Andy