Re: [Proftpd-user] UseIPv6 effects?

Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.proftpd.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> what effects can "UseIPv6 on" have on hosts without without ipv6
>> connectivity?
[...]
>> I guess that IPv4 clients should be able to connect and transfer data
>> bidirectionally without problems, correct?

On 09.11.17 08:32, TJ Saunders wrote:
>Correct.  By default, ProFTPD uses a local wildcard socket (e.g.
>"*:21"); such sockets transparently handle IPv4 and IPv6 connections.
>
>If you _do_ encounter issues/strange behavior with "UseIPv6 on" with an
>IPv4-only host, please do bring them up here.  Obviously these issues
>can be worked around by using "UseIPv6 off" in the proftpd.conf, but I'd
>also like to make the code better handle such cases automatically.

good. I have just seen a few servers with "UseIPv6 off" and was wondering if
there's reason for this.  There apparently is not, so I will turn it on, or
better said, use default cfg file.
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