Subj : Re: Listening on a specific IPv6 address.
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Mon Jan 08 2018 08:35 pm

-=> Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 MvV> Hello Tony,

 MvV> On Saturday January 06 2018 16:15, you wrote to me:

 TL> - 16:09 [7477] servmgr listen on 202.12.89.162:binkp
 TL>   16:09 [7478] clientmgr started
 TL> ? 16:09 [7477] servmgr getaddrinfo: Name or service not known (-2)
 TL>   16:09 [7477] downing servmgr...
 TL> ! 16:09 [7478] got signal #15.


 TL> This is what I had in my config file.

 TL> listen 202.12.89.162

 MvV> That may be the problem. Any address here should be a valid address on
 MvV> the local machine. So unless your fido machine is NOT behind a NAT, it
 MvV> should be an RFC1918 address, not the WAN address of your router.


Well, the machine does in fact have multiple public IP addresses, there is no
NAT router.  And besides, IPv4 works, it's the IPv6 address that doesn't work
in the binkd listen directive.


.... It's important that I NOT know.
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