GNU bug report logs - #17976
24.3; url-retrieve-synchronously doesn't fallback to IPv4

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch <at> pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>

Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 12:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, patch

Merged with 23620

Found in versions 25.0.94, 24.3

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #30 received at 17976 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch <at> pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>
Cc: 17976 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17976: 24.3;
 url-retrieve-synchronously doesn't fallback to IPv4
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 21:33:56 +0100

Juliusz Chroboczek <jch <at> pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> 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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