kern/96242: rpcbind ignores NO_INET6=yes in make.conf

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:10:50AM +0300, Alex Kozlov wrote:
> It harmless. 
> But if you wish, you can comment udp6/tcp6 lines in /etc/netconfig

Hey, thanks for this!  That totally fixed the problem.  Surprisingly,
until now, I'd never heard of that file...

Again, thanks!

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> On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 06:20:52PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > 
> > >Number:         96242
> > >Category:       kern
> > >Synopsis:       rpcbind ignores NO_INET6=yes in make.conf
> 
> > >Description:
> > 	This appears to be a repeat of the situation in PR 73865,
> > 	except for 6.1.  It appears 6.1 does something different...
> > 
> > 	When starting rpcbind with a kernel that lacks INET6 support,
> > 	even despite NO_INET6=true being in make.conf, users are shown
> > 	the following:
> > 
> > Apr 23 17:51:12 eos rpcbind: cannot get information for udp6
> > Apr 23 17:51:12 eos rpcbind: cannot get information for tcp6
> > 
> > 	Possibly the problem is within libc, because rpcbind relies on
> > 	the libc call __rpc_nconf2sockinfo() to determine whether or
> > 	not to spit out the above warning message?
> > 
> > 	What I'm trying to say is using NOINET6 on FreeBSD 5.x fixes
> > 	this, while using NO_INET6 on FreeBSD 6.x does not.