[Nut-upsdev] Re: [nut-commits] svn commit r714 - in trunk: . server

[Henning Brauer]

* Arjen de Korte <nut+devel at de-korte.org> [2007-01-10 09:35]:
> Henning Brauer wrote:
> 
> >>> you might want to either drop v4-mapped traffic on AF_INET6 sockets 
> >>> entirely (and use AF_INET sockets exlucisvely for v4 traffic, that is 
> >>> what I'd recommend), or at least check v4 access controls on AF_INET6 
> >>> traffic for v4-mapped addresses.
> >> The latter is what we seem to do know and in the short run, this is
> >> probably all we can offer for people in mixed environments.
> > I really don't see the point. Just use AF_INET sockets for v4, and 
> > AF_INET6 for v6 and you're done.
> 
> We can't at the moment, as I explained we can have only one socket and
> no configuration support for multiple listen addresses. That's my point.

yeah yeah, that was clear.

> And while I see that we'll need those, this means someone (probably me)
> will have to integrate that in the upsd server. That will take at least
> a couple of weeks (in spare time), so until that is ready, I suggest to
> keep it as it is, so that we can work out other issues with the same code.

yes, and I suggest to not waste any cycles on trying to have v4-mapped 
addresses matching against v4 policy.

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