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

[Thomas Guillem]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020, at 22:26, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, it seems that testers have a problem with IPv4 or IPv6.

Thanks a lot Martin, I will do the same for the smb2 module.

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