On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Francis Dupont wrote:
> In your previous mail you wrote:
>
> > => you can use it with the V6ONLY stuff.
>
> yes, but on rfc2553-compliant system you cannot have both an AF_INET
> and an AF_INET6 socket listening on the same port.
>
> => you can do it with the V6ONLY stuff. (again)
only if your implementation allows you to do so.
> > => this is the standard way but with the V6ONLY way you can use the
> > single socket (my favorite) or the socket per IP version (Itojun's
> > favorite). The user shall choice his own favorite or the one which
> > matches the application constraints.
>
> the user can't choose anything! if he wants to listen both ipv4 and ipv6
> traffic, he has to use an AF_INET6 socket with V6ONLY turned off.
> no other choice.
>
> => no, he can use one socket for both versions or two sockets, one per
> version, with V6ONLY turned on. The V6ONLY stuff was specified in order
> to enable that (because BIND 9 needs that for its filtering).
only if your implementation allows you to do so.
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