Hans Müller wrote: > currently I'm trying to set-up a standalone Tomcat 5.5.17 server in an IPv6 > environment on a FreeBSD 6.1 machine. Unfortunately, Tomcat refuses to > start. Here is the relevant content of the catalina.out log-file: > > SEVERE: StandardServer.await: create[8005]: > java.net.BindException: Can't assign requested address [...] > Then I looked at the particular portion of the source code which causes the > exception and I found that the IPv4 address 127.0.0.1 is actually hardcoded > several times there (in StandardServer.java, Catalina.java and some > others). Of course, the JVM cannot create an IPv6 address using this IPv4 > representation. Therefore I changed "127.0.0.1" to "localhost", recompiled > Tomcat and happily discovered that it is working now. > > BUT... since I can read everywhere that Tomcat should be IPv6 compliant, > this code-change doesn't seem to be the real solution to me. Firtly I'm not > the only one who is using IPv6 and secondly the developers are definitely > not that stupid to hardcode an IPv4 address and thereby break IPv6 > compatibility. So, I'd like to ask you if there is a configuration-only way > to solve this issue, i.e. to avoid that StandardServer is being called?
I've never had the problem you describe. I use Linux though. On my machine the shutdown port binds to IPv6 representation of 127.0.0.1: tcp6 0 0 ::ffff:127.0.0.1:8007 :::* LISTEN 7970/java (I've changed the port from 8005 to 8007). Are you using APR? If so, is IPv6 support compiled in? Regards mks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
