Re: IO::Socket and IPv6

--On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:56 PM -0600 Graham Barr <[email protected]> 
wrote:

>> After a bit of debugging, the root problem is Perl's implementation of
>> inet_aton.  I've filed a bug with Perl core.
>
> I think it is partly some fault of Net::LDAP
>
> Net::LDAP will use IO::Socket::INET or IO::Socket::INET6 to connect
> depending on if the inet6 option is passed to connect
>
> ::INET will only connect to v4 addresses but I believe ::INET6 will
> connect to either. But there is no guarantee ::INET6 exists
>
> Hm, I wonder if we should just select the default connecting class by
>
> my $connect_class = eval { require IO::Socket::INET6 } ?
> "IO::Socket::INET6" : "IO::Socket::INET";

Hi Graham,

That may indeed fix Net::LDAP's behavior, but any other Perl module out 
there that ends up calling IO::Socket::INET which then goes and calls 
inet_aton has the possibility of hitting this issue.  So I do think it 
would be great if it gets fixed at the Perl core level as well. ;)

--Quanah


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