[Dovecot] 1.1.1-1 gotcha with Fedora Rawhide package

Dan Horák dan at danny.cz
Fri Jun 27 10:29:04 EEST 2008


Timo Sirainen píše v Pá 27. 06. 2008 v 10:15 +0300:
> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 09:11 +0200, Dan Horák wrote:
> > > v1.1 changed, because using the same socket for IPv4 and IPv6 caused the
> > 
> > The change is <http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/da971cec0395>
> > 
> > > IPv4 connections to use IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses which then caused
> > > problems.
> > > 
> > > So if you want to listen on both IPv4 and IPv6, use:
> > > 
> > > listen = *, [::]
> > > 
> > 
> > But with this change is the statement about possible listening on IPv4
> > with only [::] on some OSes still valid?
> 
> With v1.1 [::] listens only on IPv6 addresses on all modern OSes
> (AFAIK). Perhaps I should remove the comment about it possibly listening
> also on IPv4.
> 

Yes, that would surely remove the variance in the two statements.


		Dan

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