Closed Bug 198239 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

IPv4 address is not tried if IPv6 fails

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Networking
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 108108

People

(Reporter: michal-bugzilla, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

I have an IMAP/SMTP server with both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. The Ipv6 address
is tried first, but if connection to it fails (for example a broken IPv6
routing), the IPv4 isn't tried. Unfortunately no alert is shown at all.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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related/dup:
bug 184889, bug 163157, bug 108108 and more
Resolving as dup of bug 108108 since that is also mailnews

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108108 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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