Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ,----- > | revision 1.17 > | date: 2000/03/03 11:35:33; author: damien; state: Exp; lines: +9 -1 > | - Don't permanently fail on bind() if getaddrinfo has more choices left for > | us. Needed to work around messy IPv6 on Linux. Patch from Arkadiusz > | Miskiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > `---
> So it IPv6 still messy? if not, then probably this patch indeed could be > safely deapplied I guess ;-) This is probably referring to binding an IPv6 :: socket and getting IPv4 for free, so that a subsequent bind to an IPv4 0.0.0.0 address fails. So far as I know, this is still the Linux IPv6 behavior. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]