IPv6 and commit d882add695bbd5ea03961c08ac2c0380fbf2947b

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 06:00:50PM -0400, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote:
>   On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 12:12 PM Jeremy Allison <[1]jra at samba.org> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 09:20:04PM -0700, Jeremy Allison via
>     samba-technical wrote:
>     >Change the API for dsgetdcname() so the caller
>     >can specify if they want IPv6 or IPv4. Don't
>     >return more than one address - we don't want
>     >to double the lookup time for a down-DC.
>
>     Probably should be a 'bool ip_v6_only' parameter.
>     Only set it if the client has only IPv6 addresses
>     available.
>
>   Thank you very much for the pointers. I explored this approach a bit and
>   got as far as hacking
>   together [2]https://gitlab.com/nathanielwyliet/samba/-/commit/efcfe8f0380c44abd52082073b7c473c153caae3
>   However, I quickly realized that doesn't really work for all the use cases
>   I care about, as it puts a burden on the callers to set up smb.conf just
>   right. Pushing the complexity up the call stack doesn't feel like a great
>   solution, especially when most parts of samba already handle this scenario
>   correctly without special configuration.
>   My second attempt at hacking something together is
>   at [3]https://gitlab.com/nathanielwyliet/samba/-/merge_requests/1
>   n
>
>References
>
>   Visible links
>   1. mailto:jra at samba.org
>   2. https://gitlab.com/nathanielwyliet/samba/-/commit/efcfe8f0380c44abd52082073b7c473c153caae3
>   3. https://gitlab.com/nathanielwyliet/samba/-/merge_requests/1

I'm getting 404's on those links, sorry.