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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Jochen Friedrich wrote:
> So IPv6 is returned by the resolver even though IPv6 isn't available in
> the kernel. The default of the resolver options should be dependent
> on the presence or absence of IPv6 in the currently running kernel IMHO.


That sounds like glibc's problem...

glibc also has really stupid and annoying /etc/hosts behavior which 
needs fixing, and IIRC it is related to IPv6...

	Jeff