Re: defaulting to net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 for squeeze
Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> writes:
> #include <hallo.h>
> * Marco d'Itri [Fri, Dec 11 2009, 12:23:36AM]:
>> There is no relevant standard that says what the default of IPV6_V6ONLY
>> should be. Currently what happens is that every OS except Linux and OS
>> X default to 1. An important point is that the kfreebsd ports only
>> support a default of 1, so these buggy programs need to be fixed anyway
>> to work correctly on them.
> From my POV as programmer it's a good change. The old behaviour (i.e.
> silent creation of v4 mapped sockets) maybe made the porting (to
> Linux/OS-X) of very simple network daemons easier but when you tried to
> make the local address binding more flexible then things became PITA.
Agreed.
> I.e. if you use getaddrinfo output then you need to sort out v6 sockets
> out and connect on them, but then you cannot be sure about whether v4
> mapping is active. You can test it by trial-and-error (binding on v4
> versions and checking the results) but then you cannot be sure that they
> are bound to you now (at least not without using ugly tricks).
Yes, exactly. You end up having to add a bunch of code to special-case
IPv4-mapped addresses in annoying ways, and that code isn't always tested
because other OSes don't do this dual-binding.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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