> On tis, 2011-08-16 at 16:17 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Well, I got this on a win64 build. It's *supposed* to have ipv6. I
> > wonder if it breaks on windows just because there is no ipv6 address
> > on the machine...
>
> It would mean that getaddrinfo() of "::1" failed. That seems weird.
>
A system admin can set registry keys to disable IPv6, either partially (allowing ::1), or totally (all IPv6 addresses
fail).
If the system has IPv6 enabled, it's not possible for there to be no ipv6 address. There is always the link-local
addressof each LAN adapter.