From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2006-05-07T00:39:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Resolv::DNS and IPv6 nameservers

In article <20060506025652.GA64784@hooker.sin>,
  Stephan Maka <stephan@spaceboyz.net> writes:

> UDPSocket requires address family given on initialization, so it's not
> possible to create an UDPSocket and *then* decide, to which hosts to
> send packets to.
>
> That's a problem for Ruby's resolver if you've got AF_INET6 nameservers
> in your /etc/resolv.conf. The following very dirty hack chooses AF_INET6
> for UDPSocket, if the nameserver's address contains colons (:).

Thank you for the patch.  I'll incorporate it.

Please send a ChangeLog entry for that.
-- 
Tanaka Akira