Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:15:54 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Yarema <yds@CoolRat.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org> Subject: Re: IPv6 for ports, automaticly enable it or not? Message-ID: <20020124161554.G825@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <980340000.1011786243@volyn.coolrat.org>; from yds@CoolRat.org on Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:44:03AM -0500 References: <20020123163021.A97184@k7.mavetju.org> <980340000.1011786243@volyn.coolrat.org>
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:44:03AM -0500, Yarema wrote: > --On Wednesday, January 23, 2002 16:30:22 +1100 Edwin Groothuis > <edwin@mavetju.org> wrote: > > > I have a couple of ports (netcat, junkbuster) which are patched or > > have patched Makefiles to allow to work via IPv6 next to the standard > > IPv4. Nothing new here. > > > > I also know a couple of ports which have different ports to allow > > IPv6 support (apache, mozilla). > > > > IPv6 is supported since version 4.0 or 4.1, most if not all > > applications in the base operating system are supporting it. > > > > Why isn't ipv6 automaticly enabled in Apache if OSVERSION > 400000 ? > > Is there still a fear of IPv6 regarding these things? > > I made IPv6 a non-default option in mail/courier because it failed to > resolve DNS addresses with IPv6 enabled, at least for me. That particular > program always tries to resolve DNS over IPv6 first and then IPv4, so it's > also slightly slower with IPv6 enabled. And in my case it didn't work at > all. Possibly cause I run djbdns instead of BIND. I don't think djbdns > does IPv6 yet. Maybe there can come a standard entry in /etc/make.conf then, which implies that IPv6 support is required: WITH_IPV6 for example. In that way ports which support IPV6 have a single switch to look at to enable IPv6. No WITH_IPV6, do not compile in IPv6 support in the application. WITH_IPV6, do compile in IPv6 into the application. It sound logical and easy enough to do it this way, doesn't it? Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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