Subject: bug#17976: 24.3; url-retrieve-synchronously doesn't fallback to IPv4

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 21:33:56 +0100

Juliusz Chroboczek <[email-masked]> writes:

> My machine has both IPv6 and IPv4.  I'm accessing a server that has both
> IPv6 and IPv4, but whose web server listens on IPv4 only.  The web server
> is doing the right thing, sending RST upon IPv6 connection attempts.  Wget
> and telnet do the right thing, they fallback to IPv4:
>
>   $ telnet moule.informatique.univ-paris-diderot.fr 8080
>   Trying 2001:660:3301:8070::40...
>   Trying 194.254.199.40...
>   Connected to moule.informatique.univ-paris-diderot.fr.
>   Escape character is '^]'.

Perhaps this should be a general network connection thing?

I know nothing about IPv6, though.

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