292906 - LDAP lookups fail with IPv6 installed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 228439

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Alexander Dietrich]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

LDAP lookups no longer work in Thunderbird 1.0.2 on Windows XP if IPv6 is
installed and the LDAP server does not support IPv6.

In the address book the lookup times out, while in the composition window the
error message "LDAP server connection failed" is displayed.
The output of "netstat" shows that TB is attempting to open a TCP connection to
the host "[::ffff:<IPv4 address>]:389".

At the same time, IMAP connections to the same server work flawflessly over
IPv4. This makes it extremely hard to initiate e-mail communication at my
company, since I have absolutely no company contacts in my local address book.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install IPv6 on Windows XP
2. Configure a non-IPv6 LDAP server in TB
3. Type anything in the address field in the composition window

Actual Results:  
The error message "LDAP server connection failed" is displayed.

Expected Results:  
Fall back to IPv4, or don't attempt to use IPv6 at all.

Comment 1

[Fernando Hartmann]

I filled the bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285785 with the
same problem. After read this bug I uninstalled the IPV6 protocol and the LDAP
query worked again.

Comment 2

[subscribe]

Same here ! The IPv6 protocole was installed but unchecked (not active) and the
same behaviour was observed.
I uninstalled IPv6 and now it works fine !

Thanks Alexander for this reporting ! You saved my day !

Thunderbird : version 1.0.2 (20050317)

Comment 3

[Howard Chu]

this is a dup of bug 228439

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This is a clear duplicate of bug 228439 -> duping

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 228439 ***