Activate ipv6 on Windows
$ cpan IO::Socket::INET6
t/blocking.t .......... IO::Socket::INET6: socket: Address family not
supported by protocol at t/blocking.t line 34.
t/blocking.t (Wstat: 27136 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
Non-zero exit status: 106
Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 2 tests but ran 0.
t/host6.t (Wstat: 27136 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
Non-zero exit status: 106
Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
t/io_sock6.t (Wstat: 27136 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
Non-zero exit status: 106
Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 20 tests but ran 0.
Files=9, Tests=10, 14 wallclock secs ( 0.09 usr 0.05 sys + 1.72 cusr 2.23
csys = 4.09 CPU)
Result: FAIL
$ netsh interface ipv6 install
The following helper DLL cannot be loaded: DGNET.DLL.
Ok.
$ cpan IO::Socket::INET6
All tests successful.
Result: PASS
SHLOMIF/IO-Socket-INET6-2.69.tar.gz
/usr/bin/make install -- OK
Working at cPanel on cperl, B::C (the perl-compiler), parrot, B::Generate, cygwin perl and more guts, keeping the system alive.
Try IO::Socket::IP instead. It handles IPv4, IPv6, and whatever else may come along in the future, all via the nice forward-compatible magic that is getaddrinfo(). Much nicer than the 'v4-specific ::INET or 'v6-specific ::INET6.
The blog post was about how to activate ipv6 on Windows, not about which ipv6 perl module to use. This has almost nothing to do with perl.
IO::Socket::INET6 was just a demonstration example.