Orit Wasserman <owass...@redhat.com> writes:

> Changes from v2:
>       - remove the use of getnameinfo
>       - remove errp for inet_connect_addr
>       - remove QemuOpt "block"
>       - fix errors in wait_for_connect 
>       - pass ConnectState as a parameter to allow concurrent connect ops
>
> getaddrinfo can give us a list of addresses, but we only try to
> connect to the first one. If that fails we never proceed to
> the next one.  This is common on desktop setups that often have ipv6
> configured but not actually working.
> A simple way to reproduce the problem is migration:
> for the destination use -incoming tcp:0:4444, run migrate -d 
> tcp:localhost:4444
> migration will fail on hosts that have both IPv4 and IPV6 address for 
> localhost.
>
> To fix this, refactor address resolution code and make 
> inet_nonblocking_connect
> retry connection with a different address.

Almost there for connect.

I'm afraid we have a similar problem with listen: we bind only on the
first address that works.  Shouldn't we bind all of them?

http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/userapi-ipv6.html

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