m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes:

> Applications can change the behaviour for their sockets using setsockopt
> and the IPV6_V6ONLY option[2], and many already do this to prevent the
> need of adjusting their configuration depending on how the system is
> configured.

This is really the right solution.  We did this a while back for INN and
it's cleared up a bunch of complexity and weirdness.  It would be nice if
we could just get all the applications patched, although I suppose that's
unrealistic.

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


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