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IPv6 and empty addresses

Added by joperry over 13 years ago

Hi, I'm using lighttpd 1.4.26 on Linux and I was looking into enabling IPv6. I was going through the documentation and noticed:

Please use server.use-ipv6 only for hostnames, not without server.bind or empty address.

Does anyone have an idea why this comment is there? I was thinking of doing the standard:

server.use-ipv6 = "enable" 
server.port = 80
$SERVER["socket"] == ":80" {
      server.use-ipv6 = "enable" 
}
SERVER["socket"] == ":443" {
      server.use-ipv6 = "enable" 
      ssl.engine = "enable"   
      ssl.pemfile= "/path/to/cert.pem" 
}

What horrible side effects will there be for this?

Thanks in advance.


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RE: IPv6 and empty addresses - Added by joperry over 13 years ago

Ok, so it really seems like they're just worried about that kernel changing that option on you; best practices is to upgrade past 1.4.27 and separate your empty addresses into ipv4 and ipv6 specific configurations.

Much appreciated!

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