On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Puneet Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > Apache : IPv4 mapped address Issue > > I’ve been trying to configure Apache as a proxy server. One thing I noticed > which appear strange to me is “with the configuration options > “—enable-v4-mapped” (on by default) apache treats only the incoming packets > for IPv4 mapped address. While making the connection to the origin server > (or web server) the feature is ignored and they are treated as it is. Is it > a known issue?
I assume you're asking "Why doesn't proxy use IPv4-mapped addresses when connecting to IPv4 origin server addresses?" Proxy knows the type of connection required to reach the origin server, so it creates a socket of the appropriate type. IPv4-mapped addresses aren't helpful.
