Patch for DNS over IPv6 support

[Sergei Golovan]

Seems like the mailing list gobbled the attachment. It is also
attached to a message in Debian bugreport:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=50;filename=resolver_ipv6.diff;att=1;bug=539269

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Sergei Golovan<sgolovan@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Appears that Erlang doesn't use DNS servers over IPv6. It ignores
> nameserver directive in /etc/resolv.conf if the IP it specifies is an
> IPv6 address and directly uses inet_udp and inet_tcp when connecting
> to DNS server (module inet_res).
>
> The problem is that if for some reason /etc/resolv.conf doesn't
> contain IPv4 nameservers the Erlang resolver doesn't work (see bug
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=539269 in Debian
> bugtracker). This situation isn't common now, but will be more and
> more common in the future.
>
> The attached patch adds transparent IPv6 support to inet_res module.
> It means that in case when nameserver IP address is an IPv4 address
> then it will be queried over IPv4, if it is an IPv6 address then it
> will be queried over IPv6. There is one drawback though: in case of
> DNS over UDP instead of opening a single socket and using it for
> queries to all nameservers the patched version opens one socket per
> DNS query. This may slightly decrease performance in case of many DNS
> servers in /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> Cheers!
> --
> Sergei Golovan
>



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Sergei Golovan