[mythtv-users] strange order of expiry

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 04:13:36 +1300, you wrote:

>On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:04:00 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 2017-10-21 at 03:16 +1300, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>> 
>>> So are you using MythTV in an IPv6 only environment,
>>
>>No.  Dual-stack.  So/but every host has both an IPv4 and IPv6 address
>>and default address selection rules prefer IPv6.
>>
>>> or is
>>> mythtv-status using the wrong options to get the host address when
>>> IPv6 is being used, so it gets the IPv6 address instead of the IPv4
>>> one?
>>
>>As above, the general default is for IPv6 to be preferred when
>>available per RFC 3484.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>b.
>
>Yes, IPv6 is preferred, if the program is IPv6 capable.  Not if it can
>not handle IPv6.
>
>I have IPv6 dual stack also, and do not have this problem.  So do you
>have an IPv6 address in the MythTV config, as well as an IPv4?  I have
>only an IPv4.

If you have the IPv6 address in the config.xml file, it might be worth
trying putting it in [].