netdev - Re: socket api problem: can't bind an ipv6 socket to ::ffff:0.0.0.0

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Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:03:50 +0100
From:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: socket api problem: can't bind an ipv6 socket to ::ffff:0.0.0.0

Felix von Leitner <felix-kernel@...e.de> writes:

> bind(3, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(6969), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::ffff:0.0.0.0", &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=0, sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = -1 EADDRNOTAVAIL (Cannot assign requested address)
>
> This is supposed to work, and it works on other operating systems, even
> on Mac OS X.
>
> I think it used to work on Linux, too.

You can find testresults for a number of (older) OSes here:
http://www.kame.net/newsletter/20010504/

You'll probably have to refer to the bindtest man page to interprete the
results:  http://www.jinmei.org/bindtest-man.txt



Bjørn

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