[Dovecot] "listen=*, ::" broken?

Tom Hendrikx tom at whyscream.net
Thu Aug 5 16:56:05 EEST 2010


On 05/08/10 15:44, Phil Howard wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:47, Peer Heinlein
> <p.heinlein+dovecot at heinlein-support.de> wrote:
> 
>> the default:
>>
>> listen = *, ::
>>
>> should work and should open port 143 on IPv4 and IPv6.
> 
> On Linux, listening to :: in IPv6 has the effect of listening also on
> 0.0.0.0 in IPv4, even though only a single socket is involved.
> 

Hi,

This is not true for my linux distro at least, which does not listen on
ipv4 interface when setting "listen = [::]" (in dovecot 1.2.13).

I need "listen = *, [::]" to enable support for both ipv4 and ipv6. This
sounds like some distro specific implementation/configuration, so saying
'On Linux' is not true.

FWIW: I run gentoo linux (in an openvz container).

--
Regards,
	Tom


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