IPv6 and FreeBSD

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi,

Someone in fr.comp.usenet.serveurs tells that:

> # sudo -u news nnrpd -D -p 563 -S
> nnrpd: can't bind (Invalid argument)

on FreeBSD when SSL support is enabled.
He found out that the bug is related to IPv6 support, as said in this list in 2004:
    http://marc.info/?l=inn-workers&m=109510903320056&w=2

> Hmm.  Is this on a FreeBSD system?  Last November I ran into a problem
> that sounds very similar; at the time the inn-stable port used
> "--enable-ipv6" by default, and for some odd reason that lead to the
> bind() call in nnrpd failing with an EINVAL error when it ran with the
> -D flag.  Having no great need for an IPv6-enabled news server, I
> rebuilt inn without that flag and the problem went away.


Are other people having the same problem here?




By the way, I am frightened when I see how FreeBSD makes their ports...
Here is the diff between INN 2.4.3 and INN 2.4.5:

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=126651

Very scary; how can they tell that this is INN 2.4.5?!?
Only Makefile, configure and innfeed/endpoint.c are changed...


Cc: some people involved in FreeBSD and who helped to debug this endpoint file
(causing innfeed to segfault on 64bit architecture).  Nonetheless, this is *not*
INN 2.4.5.  The changelog is far more that that!
    http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs-2.4/news.html


Regards,

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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