Re: IPv6 support for yp/NIS

[Brian Ginsbach <ginsbach%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:28:31PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20081209045753.GC16469%mewburn.net@localhost>,
> Luke Mewburn  <lukem%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> >-=-=-=-=-=-
> >
> >On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:36:04PM -0400, Glen R. J. Neff wrote:
> >  | I find myself in one hell of a conundrum. I need an NIS server that
> >  | supports IPv6.
> >  |
> >  | I initially tried with FreeBSD but found that every piece of the yp
> >  | suite supported IPv6 except ypserv.
> >  |
> >  | Then someone told me that NetBSD's ypserv supported it, so I gave it a
> >  | try, and they're right, it does!  But you know what, in the case of
> >  | NetBSD, every piece of the yp suite supports IPv6 except ypbind.
> >
> >Have you submitted a PR about the lack of IPv6 in ypbind?
> >Less likely for the problem to be forgotten about that way.
>
> Isn't the problem that RPC does not really support anything but IPv4?

If that is really the case then there are a bunch of NetBSD RPC
programs needlessly opening IPv6 ports.

The problem is that ypbind version 2 only knows about IPv4.  I'm
looking into adding support for version 3 ala Sun's later version
of ypbind.

Note I can't see where FreeBSD's ypbind supports IPv6 either.

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