Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > >> With bindv6only=0, a v6 socket bound to :: will not accept v4 > >> connections, full stop. With bindv6only=0, connecting a v6 socket to > >> a v4-mapped address will not work, full stop. > > That's obviously a typo -- I meant bindv6only=1. Then

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-30 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> With bindv6only=0, a v6 socket bound to :: will not accept v4 >> connections, full stop. With bindv6only=0, connecting a v6 socket to >> a v4-mapped address will not work, full stop. That's obviously a typo -- I meant bindv6only=1. Juliusz pgpEstR4god

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
(cc's dropped, sorry, I was in "kernel" ML netiquete mode). On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > > one probably has to mess with /etc/gai.conf > [...] > > On a dual stack box and any application that does NOT work in ipv6only=1 > > mode, you likely have t

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-30 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Why is it that suddenly everyone is an expert in double-stack programming? Brian May: >> For me, bindv6only=0 seems like an ugly hack designed to make existing >> applications work without change. Bindv6only=0 is a way to allow servers to be written to listen to just one socket, which allows mak

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Brian May wrote: > On 14 June 2010 16:35, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > I believe that now we fixed ~everything which can be fixed, so this > > leaves us with the proprietary Java implementation which apparently Sun > > is unwilling to fix. > > Is there software that still requires

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-16 Thread Brian May
On 14 June 2010 22:13, Adam Borowski wrote: >> For me, bindv6only=0 seems like an ugly hack designed to make existing >> applications work without change. > > "without change"?  Except, you know, the whole conversion from gethostname() > and friends to getaddrinfo()?  V4-mapped addresses won't sho

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-15 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO La nuit ayant déjà recouvert d'encre ce jour du mardi 15 juin 2010, vers 23:18, George Danchev disait : > they would be still inferior to those opening two separate sockets (which > means more fine-grained control like listening on v4 or v6 or both, or > establish means to threat them spec

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-15 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 15.06.2010 23:18, schrieb George Danchev: Jarek Kamiński writes: Na grupie linux.debian.devel napisałe(a)ś: I see only two ways of fixing proprietary Java (apart from fixing it upstream or ignoring the problem): * wrap java and java_vm binaries in some scripts setting LD_PRELOAD (in Debi

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-15 Thread George Danchev
Jarek Kamiński writes: > Na grupie linux.debian.devel napisałe(a)ś: > >> I see only two ways of fixing proprietary Java (apart from fixing it > >> upstream or ignoring the problem): > >> * wrap java and java_vm binaries in some scripts setting LD_PRELOAD (in > >> > >> Debian package) > >> > >>

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-15 Thread Jarek Kamiński
Na grupie linux.debian.devel napisałe(a)ś: >> I see only two ways of fixing proprietary Java (apart from fixing it >> upstream or ignoring the problem): >> * wrap java and java_vm binaries in some scripts setting LD_PRELOAD (in >> Debian package) >> or >> * allow sun-java6-* packages to override

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-15 Thread Jarek Kamiński
Na grupie linux.debian.devel napisałe(a)ś: >> I see only two ways of fixing proprietary Java (apart from fixing it >> upstream or ignoring the problem): >> * wrap java and java_vm binaries in some scripts setting LD_PRELOAD (in >> Debian package) > This won't work in some cases. Some native progr

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-14 Thread Julien BLACHE
Sylvestre Ledru wrote: Hi, > It is not the case. The OpenJDK has some problems with font management, > slower with Swing and a few other problems. > However, I am not aware of software not working with the OpenJDK (ie > requiring the proprietary Java). ISTR OpenJDK and JDBC4 do not exactly wor

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-14 Thread Russ Allbery
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > I believe that now we fixed ~everything which can be fixed, so this > leaves us with the proprietary Java implementation which apparently Sun > is unwilling to fix. I think there are probably other proprietary applications that people just haven't tried usin

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 08:45:58PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On 14 June 2010 16:35, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > I believe that now we fixed ~everything which can be fixed, so this > > leaves us with the proprietary Java implementation which apparently Sun > > is unwilling to fix. There's no bug, so t

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-14 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 01:25:11PM +0200, Jarek Kamiński wrote: > Na grupie linux.debian.devel napisałe(a)ś: > > I believe that now we fixed ~everything which can be fixed, so this > > leaves us with the proprietary Java implementation which apparently Sun > > is unwilling to fix. > > Unless the ma

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-14 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le lundi 14 juin 2010 à 13:25 +0200, Jarek Kamiński a écrit : > Na grupie linux.debian.devel napisałe(a)ś: > > I believe that now we fixed ~everything which can be fixed, so this > > leaves us with the proprietary Java implementation which apparently Sun > > is unwilling to fix. > > Unless the main

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-14 Thread Jarek Kamiński
Na grupie linux.debian.devel napisałe(a)ś: > I believe that now we fixed ~everything which can be fixed, so this > leaves us with the proprietary Java implementation which apparently Sun > is unwilling to fix. > Unless the maintainer believes that we can get a fixed version before > the release the

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-14 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le lundi 14 juin 2010 à 20:45 +1000, Brian May a écrit : > On 14 June 2010 16:35, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > I believe that now we fixed ~everything which can be fixed, so this > > leaves us with the proprietary Java implementation which apparently Sun > > is unwilling to fix. > > Is there software

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-14 Thread Brian May
On 14 June 2010 16:35, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I believe that now we fixed ~everything which can be fixed, so this > leaves us with the proprietary Java implementation which apparently Sun > is unwilling to fix. Is there software that still requires this proprietary Java implementation? I hear open

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 13, Sune Vuorela wrote: > You are taking the wrong approach to things. We should see if it is > still a major problem at freeze time, or if we have managed to fix all > the buggy software before freeze. I believe that now we fixed ~everything which can be fixed, so this leaves us with the

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-13 Thread Jarek Kamiński
Na grupie linux.debian.devel napisałe(a)ś: > 3) There are potential security bugs if an application black- or > white-lists IPv4 addresses and someone uses an v6-mapped IPv4 address to > connect. (Handwavy and, as far as I've seen, purely hypothetical. I don't want to blow the discussion once aga

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-13 Thread Bjørn Mork
Paul Wise writes: > How many times will this discussion will go round and round in > circles? I'm getting dizzy. I believe it will continue until someone finds the end of the circle. Bjørn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-13 Thread Michael Poole
Paul Wise writes: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Michael Poole wrote: > >> The behavior with net.ipv6.bindv6only=0 is mandated by both POSIX and >> the governing RFC.  How can you call it a bug for software to expect >> that behavior?  The true bug is that Debian intentionally violates these

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Michael Poole wrote: > The behavior with net.ipv6.bindv6only=0 is mandated by both POSIX and > the governing RFC.  How can you call it a bug for software to expect > that behavior?  The true bug is that Debian intentionally violates these > standards.  If people d

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-13 Thread Michael Poole
Sune Vuorela writes: > On 2010-06-13, Vincent Bernat wrote: >> It is difficult to understand why we should wait freeze time to change >> anything. Some people (including me) may be afraid that the problem may >> not be corrected because of the freeze. Moreover, in the meantime, some >> applic

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 13 June 2010, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2010-06-13, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > It is difficult to understand why we should wait freeze time to change > > anything. Some people (including me) may be afraid that the problem may > > not be corrected because of the freeze. Moreover, in th

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette matinée pluvieuse du dimanche 13 juin 2010, vers 10:59, Sune Vuorela disait : >> It is difficult to understand why we should wait freeze time to change >> anything. Some people (including me) may be afraid that the problem may >> not be corrected because of the freeze. Moreov

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-06-13, Vincent Bernat wrote: > It is difficult to understand why we should wait freeze time to change > anything. Some people (including me) may be afraid that the problem may > not be corrected because of the freeze. Moreover, in the meantime, some > applications don't work with IPv

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette matinée pluvieuse du dimanche 13 juin 2010, vers 10:09, Stefano Zacchiroli disait : > Now, the above is used routinely cum grano salis by individual > maintainers, that before pushing big changes that affect others discuss > them first and listen to feedback of the others. As rep

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:58:30AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > I am very much surprised at the Debian community's passivity with > respect to what I see as a clear violation of Debian's commitment to > collective decision taking. I think this is because you do not fully understand how decis

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-12 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:01:50AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:58:30AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > In netbase 4.38, Marco d'Itri has unilaterally decided to change the > > value of the net.ipv6.bindv6only sysctl to 1. This change has the > > following effects:

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-12 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Bastian Blank , 2010-06-12, 11:01: In netbase 4.38, Marco d'Itri has unilaterally decided to change the value of the net.ipv6.bindv6only sysctl to 1. This change has the following effects: (1) it violates POSIX 2008, Volume 2, Section 2.10.20; (2) it violates RFC 3493, Section 5.3; (3) it

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 12 juin 2010 à 11:01 +0200, Bastian Blank a écrit : > Please start with "fixing" the FreeBSD kernel. It only supports this > mode of operation. I agree this should be done, but why should it be done before changing the default for the Linux ports? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' :

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-12 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:58:30AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > In netbase 4.38, Marco d'Itri has unilaterally decided to change the > value of the net.ipv6.bindv6only sysctl to 1. This change has the > following effects: > > (1) it violates POSIX 2008, Volume 2, Section 2.10.20; > (2) it

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-11 Thread Julien Cristau
Dear Juliusz, On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:58:30 +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to raise the issue of #560238 once again. > > In netbase 4.38, Marco d'Itri has unilaterally decided to change the > value of the net.ipv6.bindv6only sysctl to 1. This change has the >

Bindv6only once again

2010-06-11 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Dear all, I would like to raise the issue of #560238 once again. In netbase 4.38, Marco d'Itri has unilaterally decided to change the value of the net.ipv6.bindv6only sysctl to 1. This change has the following effects: (1) it violates POSIX 2008, Volume 2, Section 2.10.20; (2) it violates RFC