IPV6 default?

Peter Van Epp vanepp at sfu.ca
Thu Jul 10 13:52:48 EDT 2008


On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:38:35PM -0400, Carter Bullard wrote:
> Hey Peter,
> It doesn't default to a particular address type, it works off the first
> answer it gets from the result of getaddrinfo().  I can try to go  
> through
> the complete list and pick ipv4 first, I suppose, but seems like a lot
> of work to fix tcp_wrappers ;o)
> 
> So argus should have put down a ipv4 and an ipv6, and the client
> picks which protocol to use, and all of that should work fine, but are
> you connecting to "localhost"?  That maybe where you're picking up
> the IPv6 possibility?
> 
> Carter
> 

	Looks to be something local thats changed. The release version (which
used to work) now does the same thing and -B isn't fixing it. The connection
is between two different machines. It may be related to the new bind I suppose
since thats a recent change in the right area. I'll poke further. 

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada



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