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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [iproute2] regression in ss output
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 19:00:36 -0700
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On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 14:28 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:44:07 +0000
> Humberto Alves <hjalves@live.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, just get rid of this 'if statement'.
> > in6addr_any should be represented as '::', not '*'. Otherwise it's 
> > impossible to distinguish IPv4 listening addresses from IPv6. Thank you :)
> 
> But IPv6 accepts IPv4 as well.

Not always (IPV6_V6ONLY socket option)

I agree that this recent change in ss is problematic.

Please give us back a way to distinguish IPV6 and IPv4