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Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0



Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it> writes:

> Solaris is a little bit tricky, i would be very careful talking about
> it.

Thanks for your caution and concern about what I might or might not
understand, but I have been administering Solaris systems and writing code
for Solaris for 15 years.

> After having enabled the posix compatibility, it works as expected on
> posix with ipv6only=0.

> The bug is bsd-only.

That was my point.  Solaris and BSD work differently, so code that cares
about portability already has to explicitly state its desired behavior,
even if you eliminate Linux from the mix entirely.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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