Damyan Ivanov <[email protected]> writes: > I think the answer to this is to listen on two sockets. One is the > current implementation on listening on the ipv6's idea of "all" > interfaces. This may fail if ipv6 is not available.
While opening two separate sockets is cleaner and is the maximally portable solution, there was a long discussion about this on debian-devel a while back (when the bind.ipv6_only setting to 1 was temporarily added in unstable), and the conclusion was that Debian should default to 0 because that's what the IPv6 standards expected and too much software assumes that default behavior. People who have the setting of 1 probably got that configuration file introduced during the time period when this was the default in unstable. Debian never released with that setting. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
