On Thursday 08 April 2010 11:05:30 Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 08:20:37AM +0200, > Vincent Danjean <vdanjean...@free.fr> wrote > > a message of 63 lines which said: > > 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.. > > You mean that applications should use the option IPV6_V6ONLY of RFC > 3493, section 5.3, therefore not depending on the system-wide value?
Could be hard to convince the developers to do so, and in my opinion distribution-specific patches should be used only when necessary, not as a normal way to proceed. Unfortunately i don't have access to the POSIX specification, but the opengroup says that by default bindv6only is 0. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V2_chap02.html#tag_15_10_20_02 So basically the developers will assume this value and will probably reject bugreports claiming that the assumption is wrong. Bye -- Salvo Tomaselli -- 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/201004081145.47234.tipos...@tiscali.it
