Can't access www.jxta.org when using kernel-2.6

[Nils O. Selåsdal]

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 04:03, Ian P. Thomas wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 20:31, Sudirman Hassan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've tried many kernel-2.6 release from arjanv and
> > yesterday from development channel. One thing that I
> > noticed is that I can't access www.jxta.org inside
> > mozilla. There's no problem to access when using
> > kernel 2.4.
> > 
> > Anybody seen the same problem?
> 
> 	I've seen the problem occur, but not on Fedora.  I had this
> happen on NetBSD.  Mozilla had a problem with IPV6 and I added support
> for IPV6 in a kernel I built.  Your new kernel may have been built with
> IPV6 support, causing you not to be able to reach this website.  Mozilla
> may have fixed this bug, so this may not even be the issue.  I thought
> I'd mention my experience just in case.
This is more an issue with NetBSD. NetBSD doesn't by default allow
ipv4 connections to an ipv6 socket (tunable via a sysctl). I don't
think linux behaves that way.
 
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