https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675409 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675409#c1 Reinhard Max changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |jkosina@novell.com --- Comment #1 from Reinhard Max 2011-02-28 09:14:56 CET --- (In reply to comment #0)

alpine doesn't seem to be connecting through IPv6 even if it's available both on the host system and the server (which is what all applications are supposed to be doing by default).

Please give more details on what kind of connection you are trying to establish (SMTP, IMAP, POP3) and how it fails.

I guess alpine is being compiled without IPv6 support ... ?

AFAICS alpine has IPv6 enabled by default and we don't explicitly disable it at build time. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675409 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675409#c3 Reinhard Max changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |chappa@washington.edu --- Comment #3 from Reinhard Max 2011-02-28 12:40:21 CET --- Ah - IPv6 is disabled by default in alpine on Linux. Comments in Makefile and C code say that this is because getaddrinfo() was broken for IPv6 in some versions of glibc. As we have glibc versions that certainly don't have that problem anymore, we could enable it. BUT I hesitate to do so, because IPv6 support in alpine seems to be incomplete in a way that has the potential of breaking proper installations. The problem is, that alpine only attempts to connect to the first address in the list returned by getaddrinfo() (to mimic the behaviour of gethostbyname()), which e.g. breaks when the server has an IPv6 address, but the daemon alpine asks for only listens on IPv4, or when there is no IPv6 routing between the two machines despite both having IPv6 addresses. Eduardo, do you know if re-alpine is any better in that respect? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675409 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675409#c5 Reinhard Max changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED InfoProvider|chappa@washington.edu | Resolution| |UPSTREAM --- Comment #5 from Reinhard Max 2011-03-07 09:29:52 CET --- Thanks, Eduardo. My mein concern was not the reason why IPv6 support was disabled on Linux by default, but its incompleteness (only trying the first address in the list returned by getaddrinfo) that will break working setups. As I don't have the time to sort this out myself, I'll keep it disabled for now. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.