[smokeping-users] Slave to Master connection over IPv6

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 04:21:45PM -0400, Jester 2.0 wrote:
> WARNING Master said 500 Can't connect to gold.example.net:80 (Bad hostname)
> 
> I then configured Slave to connect to a master that has both v4 and v6
> address and the connection worked.  Watching the connection, I see that it
> connected over v4, not v6 as it should prefer to.

Perl itself isn't really dual-stack friendly (built-in modules only
do IPv4, you need to install "Socket6" and explicitely use IO::Socket::INET6
to get dual-stack sockets).

The DNS probe in smokeping suffers from the same thing, you can't test
IPv6 servers with it either.

It *should* be fairly easy to fix, though (for AnotherDNS, it's just 
replacing one "INET" with "INET6" in the .pm)...

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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