[Pkg-haproxy-maintainers] Bug#726323: Bug#726323: Bug#726323: haproxy doesn't start on boot due to missing IPv6 address on interface

[Apollon Oikonomopoulos]

On 19:54 Mon 14 Oct     , Vincent Bernat wrote:
>  ❦ 14 octobre 2013 16:07 CEST, Philipp Kolmann <philipp at kolmann.at> :
> > Also I have changed to init.d file to source a second config file, 
> > where I have
> > the config which both nodes share, so I can easily copy one file.
> > If you need the config of the global file, please tell me.
> 
> Well, there is little we can do. I suppose the address is setup in
> network/interfaces but not available until it passes the DAD check. With
> IPv4, you could circumvent the problem by setting
> net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind but there is no such setting for IPv6 and
> kernel maintainers do not want to have such a setting.

I was thinking either that, or the address is managed by keepalived and 
subject to all sorts of master election delays. In either case, 
additionally assigning the address to a dummy interface could make 
things work (dummy interfaces do not perform DAD).

The proper fix would be for iproute2/ifupdown to actually wait for 
addresses to leave the tentative state (see bug #705996 [1]).

Apollon

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=705996