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From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Felix von Leitner <felix-kernel@fefe.de>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: socket api problem: can't bind an ipv6 socket to ::ffff:0.0.0.0
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:00:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49BFC90B.8000206@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49BF0F4D.7000409@cosmosbay.com>

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> To me, section 3.7 of RFC 3493 is not gray. It is only refering to interoperate
> with IPV4 applications. 
> Ie *sending* UDP messages to IPV4 nodes, or *connect* to TCP IPV4 nodes.
> 
> So "::ffff:0.0.0.0" has no meaning to contact an IPV4 node, since 0.0.0.0 is not
> a valid IPV4 address.

I agree with you Eric :)  I was simply referring to the fact that RFC 3493
doesn't distinguish between valid and invalid use of mapped addresses:

  IPv4-mapped addresses are written as follows:

      ::FFFF:<IPv4-address>

<IPv4-address> could be interpreted as 0.0.0.0 if you take that little section
out of context.

-Brian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-17 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-16 23:48 socket api problem: can't bind an ipv6 socket to ::ffff:0.0.0.0 Felix von Leitner
2009-03-17  0:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-17  0:18   ` Felix von Leitner
2009-03-17  2:26 ` Brian Haley
2009-03-17  2:47   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-17  8:51     ` Bjørn Mork
2009-03-17 16:00     ` Brian Haley [this message]
2009-03-17 12:58   ` Felix von Leitner
2009-03-17 13:47     ` Vlad Yasevich
2009-03-17 14:14       ` Felix von Leitner
2009-03-17 14:57         ` Vlad Yasevich
2009-03-17 17:51           ` Felix von Leitner
2009-03-17 15:21         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-17 18:01           ` Felix von Leitner
2009-03-17 15:59     ` Brian Haley
     [not found]       ` <20090317180840.GC13270@codeblau.de>
2009-03-17 19:21         ` Brian Haley
2009-03-17 19:31           ` David Miller
2009-03-17 21:05             ` Vlad Yasevich
2009-03-17 21:05             ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] ipv6: Disallow binding to v4-mapped address on v6-only socket Vlad Yasevich
2009-03-17 21:06             ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] ipv6: Allow ipv4 wildcard binds after ipv6 address binds Vlad Yasevich
2009-03-17 21:06             ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] ipv6: Make v4-mapped bindings consitant with IPv4 Vlad Yasevich
2009-03-17 21:06             ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] ipv6: Fix conflict resolutions during ipv6 binding Vlad Yasevich
2009-03-18  9:13             ` socket api problem: can't bind an ipv6 socket to ::ffff:0.0.0.0 Jarek Poplawski
2009-03-18 21:36               ` David Miller
2009-03-18 21:53                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-03-19  0:32                   ` David Miller
2009-03-17  9:03 ` Bjørn Mork

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