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Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive

Matthias-Christian Ott
August 25, 2010 03:28AM
At the moment nignx does not allow IPv6 addresses to specified by
hostname in a listen directive, that is the following will not work:

listen ipv6.example.com;
listen [ipv6.example.com];
listen ipv6.example.com ipv6only=on;
listen [ipv6.example.com] ipv6only=on;

Though I see a potential security problem with hostnames here (this
also applies to IPv4), because DNS replies can be manipulated if
DNSSEC is not used, I think that this feature would be helpful and
simplifies administration.

Given that example.com resolves to an IPv4 and IPv6 address, simply
binding to both addresses with the following directive would break
backwards compatibility: listen example.com;

For backwards compatibility I propose the following to resolve the
IPv6 addresses of a hostname and listen on them:

a) listen example.com ipv6only=on;

b) listen [example.com];

Solution b) has the disadvantage that it doesn't conform to RFC 3986.

Due to the fact that IPv4 will be a legacy addressing scheme in the
future, one could also consider to break backwards compatibility and
introduce the option ipv4only.

I would prefer this solution for 0.8 and propose solution a) for 0.7
and 0.8. So in 0.7 IPv4 addresses would be default for hostnames and
hostnames would only be resolved to IPv6 addresses if ipv6only is
present and in 0.8 both addresses would be resolved and the user can
choose between one of the address families with the options ipv4only
and ipv6only.

What do you think?

Regards,
Matthias-Christian

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Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive

Matthias-Christian Ott 3682 August 25, 2010 03:28AM

Re: Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive

mike 2348 August 25, 2010 03:32AM

Re: Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive

Maxim Dounin 1198 August 25, 2010 07:06AM

Re: Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive

Matthias-Christian Ott 1235 August 25, 2010 01:40PM

Re: Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive

Maxim Dounin 1187 August 25, 2010 02:46PM

Re: Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive

Matthias-Christian Ott 1455 August 25, 2010 07:56PM

Re: Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive

Piotr Sikora 1111 August 25, 2010 02:02PM

Re: Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive

Maxim Dounin 1132 August 25, 2010 03:02PM

Re: Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive

Piotr Sikora 1359 August 27, 2010 03:38AM

[PATCH] Make ipv6only default (was: Re: Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive)

Matthias-Christian Ott 1163 August 27, 2010 06:04PM

Re: [PATCH] Make ipv6only default (was: Re: Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive)

Matthias-Christian Ott 1517 August 28, 2010 06:56PM

Re: Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive

Matthias-Christian Ott 1316 August 25, 2010 08:26PM

Re: Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive

Piotr Sikora 1351 August 27, 2010 03:44AM



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