Default to IPv6 or IPv4?

Peter Gutmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
When running a cryptlib server under Windows Vista or Windows 7, Windows
preferentially uses an IPv6 interface rather than an IPv4 one.  In other words
if you run something like a SCEP server on port 80 it'll appear on [::]:80
rather than 0.0.0.0:80, unless you override this by explicitly specifying an
IPv4 interface.  Has anyone run into problems with this before?  I'm thinking
of adding a config option CRYPT_CONFIG_PREFERIPV4, default TRUE, to make
things work as expected, and then in about 2030 (or 2050, or whenever) when
IPv6 becomes more common than IPv4 it can be flipped to FALSE.

Peter.

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