From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Haley Subject: Re: socket api problem: can't bind an ipv6 socket to ::ffff:0.0.0.0 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:21:52 -0400 Message-ID: <49BFF850.7060906@hp.com> References: <20090316233934.GD32111@codeblau.de> <49BF0A5A.2040501@hp.com> <20090317125845.GB9754@codeblau.de> <49BFC8E6.8000404@hp.com> <20090317180840.GC13270@codeblau.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Felix von Leitner Return-path: Received: from g1t0026.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.33]:31003 "EHLO g1t0026.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752604AbZCQTV4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:21:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090317180840.GC13270@codeblau.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Top-posting so others can see your off-list rant in full. I see no reason to help you any further, even though I did have a patch that would change this behavior for you. Good luck with your "biggest noncommercial Internet messaging infrastructure" in the world. -Brian Felix von Leitner wrote: >> Please show me a porting guide that even mentions supporting IPv4-only mode >> through an IPv6 socket by using this method. There is none that I know of. > > Are you kidding me? > A _porting guide_?!? > > If you are trying to troll me, you just succeeded. > > Now please make room so the adults can talk about the issue at hand > while you are putting up straw men. > >>> Did I mention *BSD and OSX allow this? >> That was their decision, and it doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. > > Riiiight. > > There is an old joke. The Joneses are driving on the freeway, when the > radio sounds a warning. "Warning! There is a car driving the wrong way > on the freeway!" Says grandpa (who is driving the car) "what do you > mean, one guy? Hundreds!!" > > Sometimes, if there are two ways to read something, and your users tell > you which way they want it, and the competition does it the way the > users want, and you don't, sometimes, in that case, YOU ARE WRONG. > > It's that easy. > > Hey, you have an hp.com email address. Why don't you check out how > HP-UX handles this. > >> Compare your bittorrent server to Apache, which is probably the most widely-used >> server application in the world. It doesn't do what you're trying to do. See >> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/bind.html and/or browse the source code. > > What is this supposed to be? Name dropping? > > I'm not impressed. > > And Apache never won any speed or scalability records. Just because > many people use Apache does not mean it's a good piece of software. You > know, many more people use Windows than Linux. That does not make > Windows the standard to follow. Hey, many people use sendmail! And > BIND! > > Felix >