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Re: Bindv6only once again



On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:58:30AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> In netbase 4.38, Marco d'Itri has unilaterally decided to change the
> value of the net.ipv6.bindv6only sysctl to 1.  This change has the
> following effects:
> 
>  (1) it violates POSIX 2008, Volume 2, Section 2.10.20;
>  (2) it violates RFC 3493, Section 5.3;
>  (3) it breaks software that is written to comply to POSIX, most notably
>      Sun's Java.

Please start with "fixing" the FreeBSD kernel. It only supports this
mode of operation.

Bastian

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