From: snacktime <snacktime@...>
Date: 2006-10-30T10:36:42+09:00
Subject: Re: ipv6 connection attempted before ipv4

On 10/29/06, snacktime <snacktime@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed that when using net/http, and probably with any ip/udp
> socket connection, it attempts to connect via ipv6 and when that fails
> it falls back to ipv4.  Is this due to the underlying socket library
> on freebsd, or is it a ruby issue?  Both client and server are
> freebsd.

Forgot to mention this was when using 'localhost' instead of
127.0.0.1.  For anyone else testing clients/servers on freebsd, don't
use 'localhost', use 127.0.0.1.  Freebsd limits RST packets to so many
per second, and it took me a little bit to figure out why my http
connections were hanging for a second after every 200.  Not sure if
linux has the same behavior.

Chris