IPv4-Mapped IPv6 Address used in DNS with AAAA-records

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Sun Jul 30 12:40:12 CEST 2023


Hi,

On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 03:33:16PM -0700, Erik Nygren wrote:
> > As long as you have IPv4 on a client then most clients seem to just work.
> Amusingly, curl will actually connect to this with "-6" but will just use
> IPv4 (which might be a bug):

That's not a particular "curl" beviour, just the way dual-stacked IPv6
sockets work (so, it won't work on OpenBSD).

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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