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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, alexander@alemayhu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH iptables 2/2] libxtables: pass AI_ADDRCONFIG flag to getaddrinfo()
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 15:00:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170308140006.GA11040@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.20.1703081453420.4389@n3.vanv.qr>

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 02:56:24PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 2017-03-08 14:16, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> >
> >If hints.ai_flags includes the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag, then IPv4 addresses
> >are returned in the list pointed to by res only if the local system has
> >at least one IPv4 address configured, and IPv6 addresses are only
> >returned if the local system has at least one IPv6 address configured.
> 
> But even if a system has no IPv4 address - think of a bridge -, you may
> want to resolve an `iptables -A FORWARD -s ... ` request.

Right, the br_netfilter Frankenstein needs this. Will make a second
shot at this.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-08 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-08 13:16 [PATCH iptables 1/2] iptables-translate: print nft command for each expand rules via dns names Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-08 13:16 ` [PATCH iptables 2/2] libxtables: pass AI_ADDRCONFIG flag to getaddrinfo() Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-08 13:56   ` Jan Engelhardt
2017-03-08 14:00     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2017-03-09  7:23 ` [PATCH iptables 1/2] iptables-translate: print nft command for each expand rules via dns names Alexander Alemayhu

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