On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 05:04:58PM +0900, Kazuo Oishi wrote: > Vincent Danjean <vdanjean...@free.fr> writes: > >>> Anyone, could you teach me why net.ipv6.bindv6only need to be set > >>> to 1 globally, and why other good programs need to be changed? > >>> I think it should revert. > > > > I've no strong opinion about the default value for net.ipv6.bindv6only. > > However, I think that any application that breaks if the default value > > is 0 or 1 is broken and a bug must be filled.. > > I think that an application which depends on net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 is > broken (at least as Linux application).
I am not sure that there are such applications. Can you give us an example? > And I think that an application which depends on bindv6only=0 might have > a problem on portability and it might be a bug, but it should work with > Debian as ever. Setting bindv6only=1 and breaking these programs, > including outside of Debian packages, would not be a good choice. Well, nothing forbids you from changing that option on your own system, if you really need it. BTW, a related question to everyone: from reading /etc/init.d./procps I see that files in /etc/sysctl.d/ take a precedence over /etc/sysctl.conf. Should not it be the other way around? -- Stanislav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100407090837.ga13...@kaiba.homelan
