Re: Linux advocacy

On Tue, 20 May 2025 11:46:44 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

Method 1: Edit /etc/gai.conf to prefer IPv4

Learn something new every day ...

<https://manpages.debian.org/gai.conf(5)>

... (e.g., both A and AAAA records).

In the beginning (of IPv6), there were both “A6” and “AAAA” records. “A6”
records used a complex tree-structured scheme for grouping addresses for
naming purposes, while “AAAA” used a simple one-name, one-address format
like “A” records do for IPv4.

Later, it was decided that one of those IPv6 record types wasn’t worth
supporting, and so it was dropped. Of course it was the one with shorter,
easier-to-say name; while the one with the longer-and-harder-to-say name
became the standard way to do it ...