[haiku-development] Re: WebPositive & IPv6 DNS (NetPositive missing symbol?)

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:06:25 +0100

On 20/01/2013 20:03, Donn Cave wrote:
> To briefly recap, when we left this subject about a year ago, the
> Curl functions in WebPositive don't specify IPv4 only, which leads
> getaddrinfo() to resolve both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.  Where the
> actual DNS server doesn't respond to IPv6 queries, this causes a
> timeout of some seconds, per configured DNS server, which can add up
> to a very significant delay in page load.
> 
> From where I'm sitting, it looks like nothing new here in alpha 4 -
> same timeouts, same slow load.  The bind patches appended to #8293
> haven't been applied, and WebPositive still doesn't specify IPv4
> (which I wouldn't propose as the right solution anyway.)
> 
> So ... just wondering how others are getting along with this - has
> some work-around been discovered?

Maybe ask on the #curl channel on freenode?

François.

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