Re: IO::Socket and IPv6

On Mar 3, 2011, at 13:21 , Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> 
> Hi Graham,
> 
> I guess I haven't explained well enough.
> 
> Net::LDAP passes IO::Socket::INET a hostname.  A hostname that is configured for both IPv4 and IPv6.  The LDAP server is happily bound to both IPv4 and IPV6.
> 
> If /etc/hosts is ordered in one way, the Perl inet_aton function correctly resolves the IPv4 address.  If /etc/hosts is ordered another way, the Perl inet_aton function fails to resolve the hostname *at all*.  This to me is a bug.

Ah, yes. I agree that is a bug.

Graham.