Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 20:17:36 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> Cc: FreeBSD-Current List <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: INET6 in world Message-ID: <20030803181735.GC6331@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <3F2D1713.9060806@liwing.de> References: <3F2D1713.9060806@liwing.de>
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On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 04:07:15PM +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote: > Hi David, > > I've seen that several world daemons (rpcbind, telnetd, ...) are > build with INET6. > In real life, I do not know anyone who owns some IPv6 addresses > but many guys who disabled INET6 on their machines in kernel. You don't know me? Not to speak that each IPv4 address owner automaticaly owns IPv6 space via 6to4 - see stf(4). It's already available for everyone - just enable and use it. > Now the daemons prints out a (IMHO useless) warning, that they > cannot bind to the INET6 socket on each start. Especially on > workstation, which might to be started each day, this confuses > the employee (each one once, but me as admin each time). No daemon explicitly binds to an inet6 socket unless configured to do so. > Now the question: Would a patch be welcome which enables INET6 > only if /etc/make.conf not contains 'NO_INET6=true'? I'm much more in favour of adding NO_INET, NO_INET4 support, which is what really is required some day. I find it very strange to setup new IPv4 only systems in these days. Don't lock out your future. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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