Re: IO::Socket and IPv6

[email protected] (Quanah Gibson-Mount)
Newsgroups perl.ldap
Message-ID <8660F7F434CD83C6F2069225@[192.168.1.2]>
--On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 2:01 PM -0800 Quanah Gibson-Mount 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> --On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 1:46 PM -0800 Quanah Gibson-Mount
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If I move the 10.11.12.13 address prior to all of the IPv6 pieces, it
>> works fine.  Other IPv4 tools work without issue.  So if you see weird
>> behavior out of Net::LDAP on IPv6 enabled systems even if you are only
>> dealing with IPv4, this may be the cause.
>
> To clarify slightly -- It has to do with the hostname.  Specifying a URI
> of ldap://<hostname>:389/ fails.  Specifying a URI with the IPv4 address
> works.  So something is broken in how IO::Socket is determining the IPv4
> address for the hostname.

After a bit of debugging, the root problem is Perl's implementation of 
inet_aton.  I've filed a bug with Perl core.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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