[squeak-dev] NetNameResolver localHostAddress bug in trunk

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Mon Dec 17 14:12:51 UTC 2012


On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:22:02PM +0000, Frank Shearar wrote:
> On 17 December 2012 13:04, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:30:50PM +0000, Frank Shearar wrote:
> >> On 17 December 2012 12:02, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 06:53:10AM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> There are some issues with IPV6 support, particularly on Windows, so
> >> >> the Squeak 4.4 release image is being shipped with the IPV6 preference
> >> >> disabled.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Oops, indeed there *is* something wrong. The Squeak4.4-12303 image
> >> > has the IPV6 preference shown disabled in the preferences browser, but
> >> >
> >> >   NetNameResolver useOldNetwork ==> false
> >> >
> >> > It should be set true, so something must be wrong with the initialization
> >> > of this preference in ReleaseBuilder.
> >>
> >> Hm, so "NetNameResolver enableIPv6: false" is insufficient? I should
> >> rather "NetNameResolver useOldNetwork: true", it looks like (because
> >> that's a definite "switch it off".
> >
> > Yes I think that is better. But try browsing #enableIPv6: and some other
> > methods in NetNameResolver. I'm getting errors with missing sources. Is
> > something broken in the changes file?
> 
> That's odd. Do you see this with the shiny new RC at
> http://ftp.squeak.org/4.4/Squeak4.4-RC2.tgz ?

No, it looks fine now in Squeak4.4-RC2.tgz :)

Although we do still have:

  NetNameResolver useOldNetwork ==> false

Setting useOldNetwork to true will cause IPv6 support to be disabled. Too
many double negatives I suppose ;)

Dave



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