I'm cross posting this query to the MINA dev list about support for ApacheDS listening on an ipv6 socket on Windows. My first posting was:
----------------- I was recently flabbergasted to find out that no Sun JDK 1.5+ supports NIO sever support over ipv6 on any version of Windows (due to lack of support for dual-mode sockets in the underlying Windows stack implementation), and that the situation is only likely to be resolved in the future in JDK 7 on top of Vista (refer http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6230761 ). Hence my current understanding is that clients who want ApacheDS to listen on an ipv6 socket at start-up will have to use a Unix variant on which the JDK doesn't suffer this problem. Have I missed / misunderstsood anything here, or is there perhaps another JDK implementation with an enhanced NIO implementation (or some other cunning technique) that may represent a "get out of jail" card for me and my clients as far as pre-Vista Windows is concerned? Many thanks. -------------------- As MINA (very sensibly) uses NIO server socket channels, it unfortunately seems there will be a problem until an extension is made to JDK 7 running on top of Vista. Note the bug link above provides a test program which can be used to verify whether a particular configuration displays the problem or not. I'm not sure if running a different JDK implementation may help due to different bundled NIO implementations, but this is most probably not really an option for my customers. Any help / comments greatly appreciated. Thanks On Jan 17, 2008 2:24 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Karasulu wrote: > > I don't know about this but MINA may be a consideration here. Does > > MINA allow for IPv6? Does it care? > The problem is that IPV6 is the default stack on Windows... Unless we > see an urge of Linux and MacOSX stations, we may have some kind of > problem... (btw, I think that linux will see a huge increase as Asus eee > and similar computers will be sold by millions soon ...) > > But I thought that if your desktop is IPV6 based, it should still be > able to communicate with a IPV4 stack, otherwise, I can't see how those > millions computers installed with many flavors of > W$+Virii+spywares+rootkits will be able to connect to all those retarded > web sites which still use Linux + Apache HTTPd server on a IPV4 stack ... > > Don't know exactly... I'm not really a specialist. May be posting this > question to MINA will be the best move ! > > > > > I've not even considered IPv6. I'm not really interested in it at > > this point but if we have to move to JDK 1.7 to support it people are > > going to be really pissed off. Yet another ugly balancing act. > > > > Alex > > > > On Jan 16, 2008 7:14 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Norval Hope wrote: > > > Thanks for the feedback. > > > > > > However, my problem is the other way around - i.e. the client > wants > > > ApacheDS to listen on an ipv6 socket only. > > Have you tried with JRockit or IBM JVM? > > > > -- > > -- > > cordialement, regards, > > Emmanuel Lécharny > > www.iktek.com <http://www.iktek.com> > > directory.apache.org <http://directory.apache.org> > > > > > > > > > -- > -- > cordialement, regards, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > directory.apache.org > > >
