Bug#667737: libnet-server-perl: no IPv4 server when binding to localhost

intrigeri intrigeri at boum.org
Tue Jun 5 11:06:12 UTC 2012


Niko Tyni wrote (06 Apr 2012 11:02:41 GMT) :
> Unfortunately libnet-server-perl currently only binds an IPv6 socket
> when asked for 'localhost' if localhost is both 127.0.0.1 and ::1 in
> /etc/hosts. I think this is a bug. Consider a server:
> [...]
> I'm cloning a bug about this. It's clearly Debian specific
> behaviour, as the IPv6 support was patched in with 0.99-3. I think
> it's bad enough to be considered release critical, but other
> pkg-perl folks should feel free to downgrade if they disagree.

It looks like upstream Net-Server 2.x supports IPv6 somehow, so we
might be able to drop our Debian specific patch, which in turn might
fix this bug. I'll test this sometime in June.

Note that they have their own share of similar problems, though:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77569





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