Bug#688470: Test of d-i in IPv6-only environment (was: Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg)

2012-10-02 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 02:52:30AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org (01/10/2012): It worked with on/off, on/on, just not off/on. Rev 762daa6[1] should fix that. I did not have time to test it in all circumstances, though. I uploaded the mini.iso to [2]. Is that

Bug#688470: Test of d-i in IPv6-only environment (was: Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg)

2012-10-01 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 07:24:33PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: I have just run a test with today's daily netinst (http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/mini.iso, dated 01-Oct-2012 00:11) with the same setup (IPv6-only network, radvd announces prefix and RDNSS,

Bug#688470: Test of d-i in IPv6-only environment (was: Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg)

2012-10-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org (01/10/2012): It worked with on/off, on/on, just not off/on. Rev 762daa6[1] should fix that. I did not have time to test it in all circumstances, though. I uploaded the mini.iso to [2]. Is that worth a new netcfg/debian-installer upload? From where I stand, it

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-24 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Philipp Kern 2012-09-18 20120918090525.ga...@spike.0x539.de On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:59:04AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: No, I didn't get any wiser. Except that I now am pretty convinced that no service should listen to localhost. They should explictly choose 127.0.0.1 and/or ::1

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-24 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:08:08AM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: Given that DNS seems to tend to resolve localhost to both 127.0.0.1 and ::1, I guess the proper solution would be to put the same in to /etc/hosts. DNS does not resolve localhost in most instances I tried (or to just 127.0.0.1).

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:25:06AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: For example: bjorn@canardo:~$ grep localhost /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback bjorn@canardo:~$ host localhost localhost has address 127.0.0.1 localhost has IPv6

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Bjørn Mork
Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:30:58PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 17, Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org wrote: True, but somehow I feel that freeze time is not the time to change this. I disagree, netcfg should be fixed. There is plenty of time to look at

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Bjørn Mork
Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org writes: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:25:06AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: For example: bjorn@canardo:~$ grep localhost /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback bjorn@canardo:~$ host localhost localhost has

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:59:04AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: No, I didn't get any wiser. Except that I now am pretty convinced that no service should listen to localhost. They should explictly choose 127.0.0.1 and/or ::1 AIUI the point is to listen to both and hence the (or a?) record should

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:44:12PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: From my point of view, localhost should be handled like any other multi-homed host, that is, it should have both addresses. It might have been different in 2010, wenn netcfg 1.57 was uploaded, but nowadays applications really need

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 17, Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org wrote: True, but somehow I feel that freeze time is not the time to change this. I disagree, netcfg should be fixed. There is plenty of time to look at any fallback, and even reverting the change if needed. This is 2012, Europe and Asia are out of IPv4

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:30:58PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 17, Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org wrote: True, but somehow I feel that freeze time is not the time to change this. I disagree, netcfg should be fixed. There is plenty of time to look at any fallback, and even reverting the

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-07 Thread Christoph Berg
Package: netbase,netcfg Severity: normal Tags: d-i ipv6 In #685362, a user complains that PostgreSQL doesn't listen on ipv6 localhost, unless he has ::1 localhost in his /etc/hosts. I can confirm that adding this fixes the problem for postgresql-9.1. Looking through my systems, I'm seeing