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List:       netbsd-tech-net
Subject:    Re: Disabling IPV6_V6ONLY a bad idea?
From:       Matthew Mondor <mm_lists () pulsar-zone ! net>
Date:       2012-04-20 19:37:54
Message-ID: 201204201937.q3KJbs8r009812 () ginseng ! pulsar-zone ! net
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:29:46 -0400
Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:

> I think that depends on your application ... I found myself special-casing
> the IPv4-address-in-IPv6 case a lot when I had a single socket.  Having
> two sockets was just easier because I knew that a IPv6 socket was IPv6,
> no exceptions.  Handling multiple sockets for me wasn't an issue; that
> code has been around forever.

I agree, I also simply bind two sockets in my daemons.  As you say,
this is already needed to bind to specific, multiple interfaces...
-- 
Matt
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