freebsd stable - Dec 2011 - stable/9 preferring IPv4 over IPv6, what changed?

Hello

long story short: telnet foo on stable/8 will first try connecting via
IPv6, then via IPv4 (foo has A and AAAA records). On stable/9 it's the
other way round.

This trips up my setup, where a bunch of hosts (some behind NAT) can all
talk to each other over their IPv6 addresses (some are tunneled), but
cannot do so via IPv4.

Is this due to changes in bind or the resolver?

Cheers,
Uli

On 2011-12-11 23:33, Ulrich Sp?rlein wrote:
> long story short: telnet foo on stable/8 will first try connecting via
> IPv6, then via IPv4 (foo has A and AAAA records). On stable/9 it's the
> other way round.
> 
> This trips up my setup, where a bunch of hosts (some behind NAT) can all
> talk to each other over their IPv6 addresses (some are tunneled), but
> cannot do so via IPv4.
> 
> Is this due to changes in bind or the resolver?
Most likely due to changes in the IPv6 startup scripts and rc.conf
settings.  The behaviour seems to be determined by multiple settings in
rc.conf, first of all:

  ip6addrctl_policy={ipv4_prefer|ipv6_prefer|AUTO}

where the default value is AUTO.  Values of ipv4_prefer and ipv6_prefer
do what you expect them to.

In case of AUTO, and if you don't have /etc/ip6addrctl.conf with
explicit settings, /etc/rc.d/ip6addrctl checks the value of
ipv6_activate_all_interfaces.  If it is YES, IPv6 is preferred, if it is
NO or unset, IPv4 is preferred.

What are your IPv6-related settings in rc.conf?

Am 11.12.2011 23:33, schrieb Ulrich Sp?rlein:
> long story short: telnet foo on stable/8 will first try connecting 
> via
> IPv6, then via IPv4 (foo has A and AAAA records). On stable/9 it's 
> the
> other way round.
>
> This trips up my setup, where a bunch of hosts (some behind NAT) can 
> all
> talk to each other over their IPv6 addresses (some are tunneled), but
> cannot do so via IPv4.
>
> Is this due to changes in bind or the resolver?
You can change this via ip6addrctl_policy="ipv6_prefer" in
/etc/rc.conf

regards,

Detlef