Re: How to use IPv6 in preference to IPv4?

On Thursday 21 August 2008 04:04:46 am Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Steve Snyder wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > [I am not a subscriber to the dev list, so please CC me with any
> > responses. Thank you.]
> >
> > I am playing with a 3.HEAD-20080820 build of Squid, to use it's
> > support for IPv6. It seems to be working well (maybe a little slow
> > relative to v2.7S4, both on Linux) except for one irritation.
> > Given a site with both A and AAAA records, Squid always opts for
> > the IPv4 connection.
> >
> > It seems that a lot of predominantly-IPv6 sites also maintain an
> > IPv4 address, just so they can tell you to get on board with IPv6.
> > For sites with only AAAA records, Squid does a great job of getting
> > the content to me.
> >
> > Even the use of the square-bracket scheme (e.g.
> > http://[www.kame.net]/ ) isn't enough to coax Squid into IPv6 land
> > when a IPv4 address is also found by DNS look-up.
> >
> > How can I instruct Squid to prefer the IPv6 address over an IPv4
> > address?
>
> Should not be. I coded it specifically to prefer v6 if working.
[snip]

It turned out to be a browser caching problem. Once I cleared my cache
all was well.

Sorry for the false alarm, and thank you for all your efforts on getting
IPv6 support into Squid.
Received on Thu Aug 21 2008 - 11:20:03 MDT