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Re: Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive

Piotr Sikora
August 25, 2010 02:02PM
Hi,

> Note well: listen with hostname always uses *one* address returned
> by hostname lookup, the first one returned by gethostbyname(). It
> doesn't make sense to attempt to use it with hostname which
> resolves to multiple addresses.

But is that correct behavior? Shouldn't nginx listen on all of them?

> I believe correct solution would be to make
>
> listen example.com;
>
> to use ipv6 address if no ipv4 addresses were found.

Why not on both?

Best regards,
Piotr Sikora < piotr.sikora@frickle.com >


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

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

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