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Re: Adding Option To Happy Eyeballs

From: Björn Stenberg <bjorn_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 13:42:27 +0200

Alan Cronin (alcronin) wrote:
> The reason for making this change is that we have some customers who are
> still using IPv4 and are trialling IPv6 but do not want any traffic going
> to those (IPv6) servers during this time. However the DNS server will
> still return A and AAAA records.

If you don't want IPv6 traffic, why is option "-4" not sufficient?

What practical difference would a "--happy-prefer-ipv4" option provide over the "-4" option?

-- 
Björn
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Received on 2015-09-03