wget prefers IPv4 address over IPv6 one

Dawid Gajownik gajownik at gmail.com
Sun Dec 16 13:38:19 UTC 2007


Hi!

	Does anyone know why wget prefers IPv4 address over IPv6 one?

[gajownik at cyklop tmp]$ LANG=C wget 
ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-8-i386-rescuecd.iso
--14:34:30-- 
ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-8-i386-rescuecd.iso
            => `Fedora-8-i386-rescuecd.iso'
Resolving ftp.heanet.ie... 193.1.193.64, 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140
Connecting to ftp.heanet.ie|193.1.193.64|:21... connected.

[snip]

What do you think about adding to the default /etc/wgetrc file this 
statement:

prefer-family = IPv6

Regards,
	Dawid

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