Hi, 2023-10-09 15:57 CEST, Thomas Lamprecht: > I upgraded from my own build of opentracker to the Debian package > (thanks for packaging!) recently, and when I tried to start the ipv6 > service I got the error `V6 Tracker is V6 only!`. > This stemmed from a `listen.tcp_udp = SOME-IPv4` entry that I had in > there, as in my self-build the IPv4 and IPv6 daemons each used a > separated configuration file, so it wasn't a issue. > > As listening on all is fine for this setup anyway, I commented that line > out and everything worked fine. > > Slightly noteworthy may also be that I have `access.stats` entries with > IPv4 addresses that do not cause any issues with the IPv6 daemon build, > so it really seems to be limited to V6 only. > > Not sure what the best option to improve this would be. > Having two different config files would be the least amount of packaging > work, but having to manage two such files might be not so ideal for > users.
I try that first because I cannot dedicate more time to dig in the codebase. > Maybe we could patch opentracker to not fail on listen IPs that do not > match the compiled IP version, but rather just log and skip those? > This would IMO provide the best user experience (besides avoiding this a > bit odd dual daemon system in the first place, but "fixing" that surely > is more involved), but is slightly more packaging work I guess. This discussion should be initiated with upstream. There is an ongoing discussion about supporting both IPv4 and IPv6 at the same time [1], but I did not get any news and proceeded with the (not ideal) dual-packaging solution. This dual-stack support should also be initiated with upstream if we want a better solution. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/gagath/opentracker/-/merge_requests/1 > In anyway, this seems like a serious foot gun that user may run into if > the current opentracker package from experimental enters Debian proper > via unstable, so I wanted to at least report it here. Agreed. I will upload a new version to experimental and hope you can provide feedback on the bugs if they are not resolved. Best regards, Agathe.
