Bug#606273: libsoup2.4-1: libsoup prefers IPv4

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On mer., 2010-12-08 at 12:41 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On mer., 2010-12-08 at 09:17 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le mercredi 08 décembre 2010 à 00:05 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez a écrit : 
> > > it seems that libsoup prevents me from having correct IPv6 access. I
> > > have a working IPv6 setup, but none of my browser will use it because
> > > they are all webkit (and thus libsoup) based. A quick way to reproduce
> > > is to go to www.kame.net with midori, epiphany or chromium. The famous
> > > “dancing turtle” isn't dancing.
> > 
> > I’m afraid I cannot reproduce that with my epiphany installation.
> > 
> > I tried www.kame.net and the turtle is dancing. I tried my own website
> > and looked at the logs, and epiphany definitely accessed it using IPv6.
> > 
> Ok, I guess I'm bitten by the fix applied for #468801. My IPv6 addresses
> are indeed 6to4 and so IPv4 is preferred. That quite sucks, but it's not
> really libsoup fault.
> 
> I'm closing the bug for now and will try to tune my gai.conf to fix
> that, sorry for bothering.
> 
Fwiw, adding:

scopev4 ::ffff:192.168.0.0/112	5

to /etc/gai.conf fixes the problem.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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