[JDK-8016521] IPV6 address selection

[Chris Hegarty]

On 12/04/16 21:27, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> Hello,
>
> a while back I brought up the discussion that there is no
> preferIPV6=system (or similar) setting which allows to turn off the
> reordering of address families by Java. Because only the OS can try to
> correctly do target address determinaton.
>
> A Bug was opened and it was excluded from Java 8 - would there be a
> window for Java 9, still?
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8016521

I added a comment to this back in 2013, and I think it is still
applicable.  I assigned the bug and targeted it to 9.  It should
be relatively straight forward.

-Chris.