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On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 08:06:07AM -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> Really bad form to have posted a question that I can now
> answer myself, but I figured the archives deserve an answer.  :)
>=20
> >From what I gather, ipv4-mapped addresses are now disabled by
> default in NetBSD, for security reasons.  (I'm still a little vague
> on what those security reasons are, but they come from folks I trust
> to know what they're talking about)  The old behaviour can
> be reenabled by setting net.inet6.ip6.v6only to 0 with sysctl.
>=20
> Just as a followup question, is the "correct" way to support both
> ipv4 and ipv6 in a case like this to loop over the return
> from getaddrinfo() and bind a listening fd to both :: and 0.0.0.0 ?
> That is, always handle all protocols explicitly?

That's the protocol-independent version.

The other one only handles IPv4 and IPv6, and will fail in other situations
where getaddrinfo might find more than one address per AF.

Regards,
	-is

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