Re: After enabling IPv6 curl github.com fails, succeeds with IPv4

On Thu, 23 Jul 2026, Mayuresh wrote:

>> Back to NetBSD, see resolv.conf(5) already documents this behavior

Sorry I stated "this" poorly. It already documents the NetBSD behavior 
"this" thread was about.

> Can you please pin point? I searched by the word IPv6 in the man page and
> could not find the resolution sequence (vary the IP protocol first or
> suffixes first).

Not about IPv6.

"If no domain entry is present, the domain is determined from the local 
host name returned by gethostname(3); the domain part is taken to be 
everything after the first `.'."

"The search list is normally determined from the local domain name; by 
default, it begins with the local domain name ..."

> I notice (using tcpdump) that Linux varies IPv first and NetBSD suffix
> first and find the former to be relatively safer.