[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#564556: Bug#564556: lighttpd: can't bind to port: :: 80 Address already in use

Olaf van der Spek olafvdspek at gmail.com
Sat May 22 20:10:46 UTC 2010


On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
>> I thought the problem was caused by your kernel option.
>> bindv6only is now enabled by default in netbase AFAIK.
>
> Maybe it could be considered a kernel bug: if ipv6 support is disabled
> (because built as a module) at the time the netbase init script runs,
> then it cannot enable bindv6only.  The sysctl errors out.
>
> But surely programs should not be relying on bindv6only to be set!
> That is just asking for trouble.  There _are_ going to be
> administrators who disable it, and we should accomodate them.  In
> other words, lighttpd needs to set or clear the IPV6_V6ONLY option
> itself for ipv6 sockets.

I think Lighttpd does set it now.

-- 
Olaf





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