[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/2] smb2: favor IPv4 over IPv6

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le perjantaina 6. marraskuuta 2020, 21.35.47 EET Thomas Guillem a écrit :
> Let the module resolve the address and favor IPv4 over IPv6.
> 
> It seems that lot of servers or NAS have IPv6 support but have firewall
> dropping the 445 port connection via IPv6 resulting on a long timeout
> when trying to connect.

139 and 445 are very commonly blocked by default (or even by force), but 
that's been a cause for breaking IPv4 more than IPv6. In other words, this 
looks to me that it will probably break even more working setups than it will 
work around broken setups.

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