[squeak-dev] Should IPv6 be enabled?

Chris Muller ma.chris.m at gmail.com
Wed Jan 29 21:12:35 UTC 2014


I thought we had it enabled in the 4.4 release, but I just downloaded
and checked:  we didn't.

So should we enable this at the last second of this release or first
second of next release or did it get tested all during this release
and its okay?


> I have the feeling that the IPv6 support is not yet working right.
> I wanted to use our local SqueakSource, which is primarily available via IPv6
> though the HPI.
>
> The first time, I got a "connection refused" error, Socket
> was unable to open a connection to our site.
>
> I tried this (low-level connect)
>  (SocketAddressInformation forHost: '2001:638:807:204::8d59:e178' service: '80'
>   flags:   0
>   addressFamily: SocketAddressInformation addressFamilyINET6
>   socketType:  SocketAddressInformation socketTypeStream
>   protocol:  0) first connect
> And it worked.
>
> Then I tried monticello again, and it worked.
> Then again, the "connection refused" error.
>
> Since the error is spontaneous, I don't know how to debug :(


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