[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#562644: Bug#562644: samba: Does not set IPV6_V6ONLY

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 07:50:45PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Kurt Roeckx (kurt at roeckx.be):
> > Package: samba
> > Version: 2:3.4.3-1
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It seems samba does not call setsockopt() with IPV6_V6ONLY.  It's
> > really recommended that you do this.
> > 
> > Note that netbase has just changed the default from 0 to 1, so you
> > get that behaviour now by default.  It doesn't seem to break
> > anything, you now have 2 sockets open instead of just 1.

> Back to this bug report (which I kinda expected Steve to followup to
> as I have no useful clue about all this)..... Could you be slightly
> more explicit (or provide a patch, preferably with a more detailed
> rationale than "it's really recommended") so that we can consider
> talking with upstream about this?

This is probably the same as bug #574283.  There have been several (flamey)
threads on debian-devel about the fact that ipv6 socket behavior has changed
recently.  I guess we weren't able to reproduce it because we hadn't
rebooted our test systems since the change was applied.

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