IPV6 default?

Carter Bullard carter at qosient.com
Tue Jul 15 10:30:18 EDT 2008


Hey Peter,
If you chose the ipv4 address, instead of the name, you should
be able to connect correctly?

Carter

On Jul 10, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Peter Van Epp wrote:

> 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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