wget prefers IPv4 address over IPv6 one

[Andrew Farris]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Whether it works for you is irrelevant, wget has to work everywhere,
> including networks that aren't configured for IP6.
> 
> Since _I_ don't take special action to support IP6, probably it falls
> over at my Internet gateway where IP6 traffic has to be mapped into IP4
> and NAT.

If you don't have IPv6 configured then trying to ask it to use it is not going
to get far, wget does not have to work when you do that.  However, if you do
have IPv6 configured and have connectivity to outside IPv6 networks then it
seems silly for wget to choose IPv4 when its given addresses in both families as
viable DNS resolution, which was his complaint.

I think shrek is right Dawid, bugzilla it; transitioning to IPv6 should still be
a priority and all apps should choose to use it when given the choice to make
(and both are viable choices).

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