* Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Package: shorewall > Version: 2.2.3-2 > > The default shorewall config says: > > | # Setting DISABLE_IPV6=Yes will cause Shorewall to disable IPV6 traffic > | # to/from and through your firewall system. This requires that you have > | # ip6tables installed. > | DISABLE_IPV6=No > > However, it lacks a strong warning that it'll *drop* ipv6 traffic (or so it > seems), causing timeouts (that take long), instead of immediate > 'unrouteable' or some such errors (or just working connection for > localhost). Also, there doesn't seem to be any direct way to log the > reject/drops from it, so you won't easily see what exactly is going on > anyway. > > I'm not entirely sure what was the reason for my application failing, but > it's something similar to that, as disabling this setting again for my > not-for-ipv6-configured host (but still having the capability because of > Sarge's default kernel) resolved it. > > I'd appreciate it if you could add a warning there so that people won't > easily make the same mistake I did :)
I'm going to add a note in the README.Debian. Thank you for you report. -- lorenzo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
