Changeset fd73022

Timestamp:

2011-02-24T19:15:44Z (14 years ago)

Author:

Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@…>

Branches:

master

Children:

79ec314

Parents:

bb8d7d1

Message:

Don't use AI_ADDRCONFIG at all for setting up a listening socket, since it
only seems to cause problems when other programs don't use it. I hope this
won't introduce new other problems..

File:

• bitlbee.c (modified) (1 diff)

bitlbee.c

@@ -87 +87 @@
         hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE
 #ifdef AI_ADDRCONFIG
-                       | AI_ADDRCONFIG
+        /* Disabled as it may be doing more harm than good: this flag
+           ignores IPv6 addresses on lo (which seems reasonable), but
+           the result is that some clients (including irssi) try to
+           connect to ::1 and fail.
+                       | AI_ADDRCONFIG */
 #endif
         ;