IPv6 doesn't resolve anymore. Pinging to a numeric IPv6 address does. ping6 openov.nl unknown host tracepath6 openov.nl getaddrinfo: Resolver Error 0 (no error) Reproducible: Always paludis@1325105731: [WARNING paludis.deprecated] In thread ID '3286': ... In program paludis --info: ... paludis is deprecated. Use 'cave' instead. paludis 0.58.2 Paludis build information: Compiler: CXX: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ 4.5.2 CXXFLAGS: -march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3 -pedantic LDFLAGS: -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed DATE: 2011-02-05T14:58:40+0100 Libraries: C++ Library: GNU libstdc++ 20101216 Paths: DATADIR: /usr/share LIBDIR: /usr/lib64 LIBEXECDIR: /usr/libexec SYSCONFDIR: /etc PYTHONINSTALLDIR: RUBYINSTALLDIR: /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux System: Linux nemesis 3.1.0-gentoo #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 4 21:21:03 CET 2011 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux Reduced Privs: reduced_uid: 105 reduced_uid->name: paludisbuild reduced_uid->dir: /dev/null reduced_gid: 1007 reduced_gid->name: paludisbuild Environment: Format: paludis Config dir: /etc/paludis Root: / System Root: / World file: /var/db/pkg/world Repository installed-virtuals: format: installed_virtuals root: / Repository virtuals: format: virtuals Repository gentoo: format: e location: /usr/portage builddir: /mnt/dv/paludis cache: /usr/portage/metadata/cache distdir: /mnt/media/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass layout: traditional names_cache: /usr/portage/.cache/names newsdir: /usr/portage/metadata/news profile_eapi_when_unspecified: 0 profile_layout: traditional profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/10.0 securitydir: /usr/portage/metadata/glsa setsdir: /usr/portage/sets sync: rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/cache/paludis/metadata Package information: app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3 3.2-r2 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.5 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.6-r3 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.7 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3 1.11.1-r1 1.4_p6 1.5 1.6.3 1.7.9-r2 1.8.5-r3 1.9.6-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 3.4.6-r2 4.5.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.5-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-freebsd/freebsd-lib: (none) sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.1 sys-libs/glibc: 2.14.1-r1 sys-libs/uclibc: (none) Repository installed: format: vdb location: /var/db/pkg builddir: /var/tmp/paludis eapi_when_unknown: 0 names_cache: /var/db/pkg/.cache/names provides_cache: /var/db/pkg/.cache/provides root: / Repository localportage: format: e location: /usr/local/portage builddir: /mnt/dv/paludis cache: /var/empty distdir: /mnt/media/distfiles eapi_when_unknown: 0 eapi_when_unspecified: 0 eclassdirs: /usr/portage/eclass layout: traditional names_cache: /usr/local/portage/.cache/names newsdir: /usr/local/portage/metadata/news profile_eapi_when_unspecified: 0 profile_layout: traditional profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/10.0 securitydir: /usr/local/portage/metadata/glsa setsdir: /usr/local/portage/sets sync: sync_options: use_manifest: use write_cache: /var/cache/paludis/metadata
i can't confirm this behavior $ dig +short AAAA wh0rd.org 2001:41c8:1:4f39::10 $ strace ping6 wh0rd.org ... connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(1025), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "2001:41c8:1:4f39::10", &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=0, sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = -1 ENETUNREACH (Network is unreachable) ... you'll need to do some network debugging on your side to narrow things down