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Re: Should listen *:443 bind to IPv4 and IPv6 ?

Maxim Dounin
June 13, 2018 08:22AM
Hello!

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 11:01:09AM +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote:

> I wonder if I missed an announcement for a change in nginx behaviour
> or if some local issue is causing me problems. The configuration
>
> server {
> listen *:443 ssl default_server;
> }
>
> used to bind to both 0.0.0.0:443 and [::]:443, but since I updated to
> nginx 1.15.0 it only binds to IPv4 but no longer to IPv6. When I add
> a second listen directive
>
> server {
> listen *:443 ssl default_server;
> listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
> }
>
> the server can be reached via both IPv6 and IPv4 again. Was this a
> deliberate change?

The "listen *:443" snippet always created only IPv4 listening
socket. Though I think I've seen some distributions patching
nginx to create IPv6+IPv4 sockets instead.

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Subject Author Posted

Should listen *:443 bind to IPv4 and IPv6 ?

Ralph Seichter June 13, 2018 05:02AM

Re: Should listen *:443 bind to IPv4 and IPv6 ?

Maxim Dounin June 13, 2018 08:22AM

Re: Should listen *:443 bind to IPv4 and IPv6 ?

Ralph Seichter June 13, 2018 11:12AM

Re: Should listen *:443 bind to IPv4 and IPv6 ?

Maxim Dounin June 13, 2018 12:00PM



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