On 2016/05/17 08:27, Brent Cook wrote:
> This patch came by way of the openntpd github. Linux (and possibly others)
> will attempt to bind to 0.0.0.0 when binding to '::' and return an error if
> it can't, unless IPV6_V6ONLY is set.

Do you see why they're doing this?

In an OS where IPV6_V6ONLY=0 is the default (i.e. allowing v4 on
v6 sockets), someone binds to :: expecting to pick up all traffic.

Now another user's process binds to 0.0.0.0.

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