RE: cfservd ipv6

[Sean Lally]

Thanks for pointing out that document
(http://www.iu.hio.no/cfengine/confdir/ipv6.html), Mark.  It explains a
lot.  I won't be concerned about cfengine not showing up as IPv4 in
netstat from now on.  I think the reason it's not working is cfservd
isn't binding to an IPv6 address because my system doesn't have a
routable IPv6 address assigned to it (based on what I read in the
document above; I have no experience with IPv6):  

# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 32972
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
lo1: flags=8008<LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 32972
fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
        status: active
        inet 192.168.100.28 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255
        inet6 fe80::2d0:b7ff:fe49:b1c0%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1

The tail end (I can send the whole thing if you desire) of cfservd -d0
shows:

IPV6 address
sockaddr_ntop(::)
Bound to address ::
Listening for connections ...
Checking file updates on /var/cfengine/inputs/cfservd.conf
(3ca211ff/3ca21382)

Which looks like it's not bound to anything.  

Is there a way to compile cfengine without IPv6 support?  If you could
just point me in the right direction I could try to figure it out
myself.  I've been trying for the last couple of days without success. 

The stock OpenBSD kernel comes with IPv6 enabled.  I could recompile the
kernel without IPv6 to make it work, but then I'd have to do that for
all the boxen. 

Thanks so much for your time with this.

Sean






-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:52 PM
To: Sean Lally
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: cfservd ipv6




It doesn't matter that the host is only listening on ipv6. It
still hears ipv4. Take a look at the ipv6 notes in the searchable
index at www.cfengine.org about this. If you get connection refused
it is far more likely to be something else.

Send detailed/precise error messages if you want more help.

M

On 26 Mar, Sean Lally wrote:
> Hello,
> I searched the bug-cfengine archives (google) and couldn't find
anything
> on this.  I just installed cfengine on an openbsd 2.9 box and when I
run
> cfservd it's only listening for ipv6 according to netstat -a.
>
> tcp6       0      0  *.cfengine             *.*
> LISTEN
>
> also here's the tail end of cfservd -d0:
> ...
> IPV6 address
> sockaddr_ntop(::)
> Bound to address ::
> Listening for connections ...
> Checking file updates on /var/cfengine/inputs/cfservd.conf
> (3ca0eb4e/3ca0fb28)
>
> When I telnet localhost 5308 I get a connection refused.  I just
> installed the same setup on a solaris 2.6 box and cfservd seems to
> respond properly to the same stimulus.
>
> Is there a runtime switch that I can use to have it only listen on
ipv4?
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> -Sean



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