On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Jon Trulson wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Would that make sense to add "flags = IPv4" for IPv6-enabled
>>> systems (until of course our daemons support IPv6)?
>>>
>>> //Marcin
>>>
>>
>> Will it matter?
>
> I don't for for Linux and xinetd, but I had
> to explicitly configure CDE RPC services to
> be IPv4-only, otherwise they might get a AF_INET/AF_INET6
> dual socket where localhost may appear as AF_INET6 ::1
>
> lib/tt/bin/ttdbserverd/db_server_svc.C even explicitly
> rejects such connections:
>
If I read this right, the connection will only be rejected if a
request come in over IP6 - which should not be able to happen with
current CDE, right?
---
> 269 if (getsockname(0, (struct sockaddr *) &saddr, &asize) == 0) {
> 270
> 271 // We were given a socket. This means we were
> started
> 272 // from inetd.
> 273 if (saddr.sin_family != AF_INET) {
> 274 _tt_syslog(0, LOG_ERR, "saddr.sin_family !=
> AF_I
> NET");
> 275 exit(1);
> 276 }
> 277
> 278 start_mode = STARTED_FROM_INETD;
> 279 errstr = 0;
>
> We have to stick with IPv4 until we switch to the proper TI-RPC API.
>
> But maybe there is some magic in xinetd to prevent problems?
>
> //Marcin
>
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