Zabbix-agent and IPv6

[Sypher]

Both zabbix-server and zabbix-proxy appear to he having (full) IPv6 support yet the agent still does not.

We're managing many servers including ones that have both an AAAA and an A-record in their DNS for their hostname (monitoring on IP's is not possible).
Zabbix-proxy tries to connect to it, retrieves the IP and gets the IPv6 since that takes preference (by default).

However, since zabbix-agent is NOT listening on IPv6 it will refuse the connection. The zabbix-proxy (and probably also -server) then assumes this host is offline without trying it again on the IPv4 address.

Does anyone have any pointers on how to:

1. Enable IPv6 support in Zabbix-agent
2. Disable IPv6 support in Zabbix-proxy (and server)

?

[qix]

Did you use pre-compiled agents or did you compile them yourself?
On what OS are the Agents?
What Zabbix version of the agents are you using?

[Sypher]

Kind of stupid, but after posting this I realised that we might be running a (very) old version namely the Debian stable one: 1.4.x (one reason I really dislike the Debian "stable").

The 1.8.2-1 in backports does work with IPv6, although this does not really explain why Zabbix-server/Zabbix-proxy is not smart enough to fallback to IPv4..