Helix/Real Player IPv6 DNS Issues

I suppose this is a question for filesystem-dev mailing
list. 
Forwarding...and BCC player-users.

At 06:07 AM 9/18/2006, Test Drive wrote:
>Hi List,
>
>I am testing Helix Universal Player with IPv6 support.
Everything is good 
>on the server side.I have tested my setup with IPv4.
Everything works 
>perfectly well.  However I have issues on the client
side when using IPv6. 
>I have tested both windows/linux clients. I put the ipv6
address of my 
>Helix server in /etc/hosts and equivalent on windows.
From browsers the 
>navigation works good by using the hostname which gets
resolved from 
>/etc/hosts and equivalents. However when i try to play 
><http://myhelixserver
:80/ramgen//timeradio.rm>http://myhelixserver:80/ramgen//
timeradio.rm, 
>realplayer/helixplayer gives me an error regarding the
resolution of the name.
>"
>Unable to locate server. This server doesnot have a DNS
entry. Please 
>check the server name in the URL and try again.
>rtsp://[myserverip]/etc......
>"
>I downloaded the timeradio.rm on client side and try
peek into it. The 
>intersting part is that timeradio.rm already contains
the IP address of 
>the server. The entry in the timeradio.rm looks like
this.
>
>"rtsp://[2001:db8:100:f101::2]:554//timeradio.rm?c
loakport=80,554"
>
>Even though I am using a global scope IPv6 address, I am
on an isolated 
>network in VMware Machines.
>Why would the player try to go to DNS server when it
already has the IP 
>address?
>
>I am unable to work it out. Am I missing something?
>
>Thanks In Advance


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