Good find, and I'm glad it's working for you.

If you're interested in reporting this as a bug against Activeperl (provided the version you're using is actively supported) it might be worth your time to let them know that defaults builds of built-in classes lack IPv6 support, and presumably a brief description of the issue and a link to that bug should be all they need to fix it in later releases.

from the looks of the CPAN bug you linked, this is an issue in the Socket class which provides some system-call integration involving address resolution, and that is what lacks IPv6 support, even when IO::Socket::IP does support it.In this day there's no good reason for out-of-the-box software not to at least support it.

In reply to Re^3: Activeperl 5.16.1 Ipv6 support by Apero
in thread Activeperl 5.16.1 Ipv6 support by rama133101

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