INET6 in world

[Andy Farkas]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 04:07:15PM +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > I've seen that several world daemons (rpcbind, telnetd, ...) are
> > build with INET6.
> > In real life, I do not know anyone who owns some IPv6 addresses
> > but many guys who disabled INET6 on their machines in kernel.
...
> No daemon explicitly binds to an inet6 socket unless configured
> to do so.

During bootup, I see this too:

Jul 13 18:09:42 <console.info> hummer kernel: Starting rpcbind.
Jul 13 18:09:42 <console.info> hummer kernel: Jul 13 18:09:42 <daemon.err> hummer rpcbind: cannot create socket for udp6
Jul 13 18:09:42 <console.info> hummer kernel: Jul 13 18:09:42 <daemon.err> hummer rpcbind: cannot create socket for tcp6


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        Andy Farkas
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