Simon,

am Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 05:15:37PM +0200 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
> I guess I just don't understand where those IPv4-mapped IPv6
> addresses that the SPF process needs to check are coming from. An
> example would be very helpful.

on Linux, if you set bindv6only to 0 and set up a socket listening on
AF_INET6 you are able to receive IPv4 connections to that IPv6 socket. The
source IPs will be mapped into IPv4-mapped IPv6 space. This means that you
only need to setup one socket instead of one for v4 and one for v6.

> Yeah, this is bad. Variants arise in many situations. Usually it is
> solved by treating IPv6 addresses as opaque and not giving any
> special meaning to the IPv4-mapped prefix.

As above that does not help. If your SPF process is operating in the
setup above, IPv4-mapped IPv6 space needs to be treated with the IPv4
ruleset.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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