From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 3 11:17:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3ADD37B401; Sun, 3 Aug 2003 11:17:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CC3C43F75; Sun, 3 Aug 2003 11:17:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h73IHeaK037034 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 20:17:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301::12]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h73IHdAx024794 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 20:17:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h73IHdNS021095; Sun, 3 Aug 2003 20:17:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h73IHavG021094; Sun, 3 Aug 2003 20:17:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 20:17:36 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Jens Rehsack Message-ID: <20030803181735.GC6331@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <3F2D1713.9060806@liwing.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F2D1713.9060806@liwing.de> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.1-CURRENT alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: FreeBSD-Current List Subject: Re: INET6 in world X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 18:17:49 -0000 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