Bug#152250: [debian@onerussian.com: /usr/sbin/sshd: wrong DISPLAY is due to hijacking someone other's one...]
Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> writes:
> ,-----
> | revision 1.17
> | date: 2000/03/03 11:35:33; author: damien; state: Exp; lines: +9 -1
> | - Don't permanently fail on bind() if getaddrinfo has more choices left for
> | us. Needed to work around messy IPv6 on Linux. Patch from Arkadiusz
> | Miskiewicz <misiek@pld.org.pl>
> `---
> So it IPv6 still messy? if not, then probably this patch indeed could be
> safely deapplied I guess ;-)
This is probably referring to binding an IPv6 :: socket and getting IPv4
for free, so that a subsequent bind to an IPv4 0.0.0.0 address fails. So
far as I know, this is still the Linux IPv6 behavior.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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