I "think" this is supported now.........but I need to check......
/jim
"Shout it out G.L.O.R.I.A." (Them [Van Morrison])
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, JINMEI Tatuya / [ISO-2022-JP] 神明達哉 wrote:
>
> > >>>>> On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:51:25 -0300,
> > >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >
> > >> >> for example: on linux system, if you would like to turn IPV6_V6ONLY
> > >> >> option on, you can only accept IPv6 traffic with getaddrinfo(3) loop.
> > >> >If that changes were done, turning IPV6_V6ONLY on would not be frequently d=
> > >> >one.
> >
> > >> if you want to see IPv4 traffic on AF_INET socket (so that we don't
> > >> get confused by bogus source address, and generating bogus traffic
> > >> when responding) you will want to do IPV6_V6ONLY.
> >
> > > Yes, maybe a flag telling that the old behaviour should be used would be need
> > > to be added too.
> >
> > Then we'll see unreadable conditionals or ifdef tricks. I'd rather
> > prefer just skipping possible errors against multiple calls of bind(2)
> > for each addrinfo element returned by getaddrinfo(3), as itojun
> > suggested. If we take this approach, though, then we'll need one
> > constraint of getaddrinfo(3); it should return the AF_INET6 wildcard
> > address before the AF_INET one on those stacks that do not allow
> > conflict of an AF_INET6 wildcard socket and an AF_INET one.
> > (Otherwise, the already bound AF_INET socket would reject binding the
> > AF_INET6 one, and we would not receive IPv6 packets.)
>
> good idea. at least this behaviour for getaddrinfo (returning first :: and
> then 0.0.0.0) could be specified. jim, what do you think?
>
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>
> Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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