Re: IPv6 support for yp/NIS

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20081210190548.GA8288%NetBSD.org@localhost>,
Brian Ginsbach  <ginsbach%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
>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.

How does one deal with things that use struct sockaddr_in *
svc_getcaller(SVCXPRT *xprt), like ypbind does?

>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.

Isn't that for NIS+? (I am clueless)

christos