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Date:      Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:10:33 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        tyler spivey <tspivey8@telus.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with Ncftp and IpV6
Message-ID:  <20020606121033.G552@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <20020605234710.YKSQ7991.priv-edtnes09-hme0.telusplanet.net@a7a42593>; from tspivey8@telus.net on Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:47:11PM -0600
References:  <20020605234710.YKSQ7991.priv-edtnes09-hme0.telusplanet.net@a7a42593>

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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:47:11PM -0600, tyler spivey wrote:
> To the point:
> When i do:
> ncftp3 ftp.netbsd.org
> It tries to connect me to an ipv6 address which I can't suport, and don't wnat to.
> But I can connect to ftp.freebsd.org fine - how can i tell
> Freebsd that i want ipv4 addresses before ipv6 Ones?
> I tried to get a man page on host.conf, but had no luck - there
> isn't a man page as far as i can tell.

Current ncftp3 port doesn't support ipv6, so I can't test it for
you. But if an application gets multiple A or AAAA records, it
should go through them all before giving up. Maybe ncftp3 does, but
like I said I couldn't test it.

Edwin

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