From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Issue separate DNS queries for ipv4 and ipv6
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:50:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <508079A3.5090703@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <508072F5.6000908@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On 18.10.2012 23:21, Gustavo Luiz Duarte wrote:
> Because IPv4 is much more prevalent at present, what means less
> unnecessary traffic and a slightly better performance on most of the
> cases.
Also way too often IPv6 is misconfigured and detecting this condition
may be slow if the packets simply get dropped.
> We can always change the default in the future (when IPv6 is more
> prevalent) as such "preference" is just an optimization.
> Also, I should soon have a patch to allow the user to configure this
> lookup behavior if he/she wants it.
>
>
>
> On 10/16/2012 10:06 PM, Richard Laager wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 21:55 -0300, Gustavo Luiz Duarte wrote:
>>> The default is DNS_OPTION_PREFER_IPV4.
>>
>> Why prefer IPv4 when most things prefer IPv6?
>>
>>
>>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-18 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-17 0:55 [PATCH] Issue separate DNS queries for ipv4 and ipv6 Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2012-10-17 1:06 ` Richard Laager
2012-10-18 21:21 ` Gustavo Luiz Duarte
2012-10-18 21:50 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2013-11-02 16:34 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-05 19:07 ` Gustavo Luiz Duarte
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