Re: listening to IPv4 & 6 sockets

Cory C. Albrecht <[email protected]> wrote:

> Pennmush has, in its prebuild configure script a note that if it 
> detects IPv6 capability but is being compiled on OpenBSD to force use 
> of IPv4 only. This is because on OpenBSD you can't just bind to and 
> listen on a IPv6 socket and get the IPv4 connections on that same 
> socket like other OSes can do.

This is a conscious decision which has by now found its way into
FreeBSD and NetBSD, too.  See inet6(4).

> Compiling and running the exact same code on my ISP's shell machine
> (FreeBSD) accepted connections for both IPV4 & 6.

Probably they are still running FreeBSD 4.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [email protected]