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resolve_prefer_ipv6 should be ON by default #842

Open irssibot opened 12 years ago

irssibot commented 12 years ago

Irssi should prefer IPv6 addresses when a host has both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. This is a common standard and it happens in virtually any IPv6 capable application and protocol I can think of, like jabber clients, basically all web browsers, mail clients, ssh, you name it.

I was pretty surprised to learn that irssi doesn't follow that standard and instead has a config parameter to control that behaviour -- but what confused me is that it is set to OFF by default.

Thus, I'm wondering what the reasons for that default behaviour could be, and I think it should be changed. Relatedly, to avoid unpleasent user experience, bugs #757 and #579 should also be fixed.

irssibot commented 11 years ago

Hi,

With a NAT64, irssi asks in the first for an A record. And, even if there's no IPv4 on the computer, it tries to connect with an IPv4. Although Irssi is IPv6 capable, and the DNS64 can respond with IPv6 everytime. Moreover, irssi always asks for an A and an AAAA, it's stupid. Please, let the courageous IPv6's users to have a better life... Please, trust in the future!