Subj : Re: Listening on a specific IPv6 address.
To   : Kees van Eeten
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Mon Jan 08 2018 08:41 pm

-=> Kees van Eeten wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 KvE> Hello Tony!

 KvE> 06 Jan 18 16:15, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 TL>   16:09 [7477] BEGIN, binkd/1.1a-96/Linux binkd.conf
 TL>   16:09 [7477] servmgr started
 TL> - 16:09 [7477] servmgr listen on 202.12.89.162:binkp  <-- IPv4 works OK
 TL>   16:09 [7478] clientmgr started
 TL> ? 16:09 [7477] servmgr getaddrinfo: Name or service not known (-2)  <--
IPv6 doesn't
 TL>   16:09 [7477] downing servmgr...
 TL> ! 16:09 [7478] got signal #15.

 
 KvE> binkp           24554/tcp                       # binkp fidonet
 KvE> protocol

It's already in there. In fact, binkd has done the lookup to report the above. 
The getaddrinfo error occurs when I have the line:

listen [2001:44b8:4176:f100::6]:24554

Without that line, it works on IPv4 and binkd runs.


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