Re: Linux.conf.au 2003 Report

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 08:19:23AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > Depending on the OS, binding to all addresses on IPv6 will also
> > bind to all the ipv4 addresses, which can be both handy an
> > annoying.  On others you need 2 sockets if you want to listen on
> > both ipv4 and ipv6, which makes more sense.
> 
> Well, that's interesting.  Current CVS only binds to IPv6, and assumes
> IPv4 will work too.  If some OS's require a separate Ipv4 binding, we
> are going to hear about it before 7.4:

It will not work on atleast OpenBSD.  I believe it won't work on
the other BSDs in the future either.


Kurt