Subj : Automatically blocking co
To   : DIGITAL MAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Thu Jun 06 2024 16:09:00

>  > Hmmmm... which setting would I want to set if I wanted to tell synchronet
>  > not to allow the port to be reused by another process?

> On Linux, that'd be REUSEADDR = FALSE

Thanks.  This has been updated!

>  > I also see that IPV6_V6ONLY = 1 .  What does that one do?

> From https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/ipv6.7.html

>               If this flag is set to true (nonzero), then the socket is
>               restricted to sending and receiving IPv6 packets only.  In
>               this case, an IPv4 and an IPv6 application can bind to a
>               single port at the same time.

>               If this flag is set to false (zero), then the socket can
>               be used to send and receive packets to and from an IPv6
>               address or an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address.

Since I don't use IPV6 here, would I want to set that to zero/false?  It
does not appear to be causing any issues (that I know of).


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