Paul Marks wrote:
> >> As an Internet Lorax, I beg you to reconsider this algorithm.

Yes, the current algorithm is quite naive. I'm working on an update.

> I then ran this on my router:
> $ iptables -I FORWARD -i eth1 -s 216.218.228.119 -j DROP
>
>
> And curl hangs waiting for the IPv4 response:
> $ src/curl -v http://ds.test-ipv6.com/ip/
> * About to connect() to ds.test-ipv6.com port 80 (#0)
> * Trying 216.218.228.119...
> * Trying 2001:470:1:18::119...
> * Adding handle: conn: 0x15548e0
> * Adding handle: send: 0
> * Adding handle: recv: 0
> * Curl_addHandleToPipeline: length: 1
> * - Conn 0 (0x15548e0) send_pipe: 1, recv_pipe: 0
> // -- At this point, it hangs for a couple minutes --
> * Whut?

Ah, interesting! Thank you for the bug report.

-- 
Björn
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