From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 10 19:08:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21EEE16A401 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:08:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spil.oss@googlemail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39C613C4B7 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:08:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spil.oss@googlemail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so179048ugh for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:08:33 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FUS55dx1pNMpTLEvtxZaixCFeRIKlM4lhocxm9w2WyrMWrCgMJMkhFjCmH5f/vUIzTRbVYDYjdPFElGD7kzoWREKmNf8Ig/hFewFZmNITdocjpVlweKFuFYyV/5+ZBg/Vxb/f7RHVLzfZhXFpTU0Cbs7msLyceTFWY9eh5HxE/c= Received: by 10.78.180.16 with SMTP id c16mr133040huf.1171134512992; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:08:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.222.11 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:08:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5fbf03c20702101108p686ed116n90fbdf26308f0e55@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:08:32 +0100 From: "Spil Oss" To: Michael In-Reply-To: <45C9A73C.1020409@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5fbf03c20702021132y5f931f5esdeab22d0048fa5a6@mail.gmail.com> <45C9A73C.1020409@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with IPv6-less kernel and world X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: spil.oss@gmail.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:08:35 -0000 Hi Michael, Well, actually I'm proposing a change to the GENERIC kernel and make.conf.example to add to the comment that one should add WITHOUT_IPV6 to the make.conf if you enable NO_INET6. That sounds to me like something completely different than contacting all port-maintainers. There may off course be a lot of ports in the ports-collection that do not correctly handle WITHOUT_IPV6, and the maintainers of these ports should be contaced on a per-port basis. Kind regards, Spil. On 07/02/07, Michael wrote: > Spil Oss wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have NO_INET6 in my /etc/make.conf and INET6 is commented out in my > > kernel config. > > Until today I did *not* have WITHOUT_IPV6 in my make.conf > > In 6.1 I have been unable to run php 5.2 in combination with > > mail/roundcube, it segfaulted apache, 5.1.6_3 was fine. > > Since my upgrade to 6.2-RELEASE I was no longer able to connect to the > > MSN network using irc/bitlbee_1.0.3_3 (which worked fine on 6.1) and > > every account I had took an additional 75 seconds to load (timeout on > > the socket) (net.inet.tcp.keepinit: 75000? or net.inet.tcp.keepintvl: > > 75000?) > > > > After trying all kinds of things (openssl, gnutls), today I found out > > that bitlbee had a --ipv6 knob in it's config and was able to run > > bitlbee again after fiddling the Makefile. Then I set WITHOUT_IPV6 in > > my make.conf and that worked as well. > > To my surprise, a newly compiled PHP 5.2 now also works > > > > Should there not be a warning in the examples and man-pages for the > > make.conf and GENERIC that you should set WITHOUT_IPV6 if you disable > > INET6 and/or set NO_INET6? > > Would save idiots like undersigned tripping into this dark hole.... > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > Spil. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > I couldn't agree more. This makes it tough for those of us that want to > get rid of the overhead of the IPV6 protocol in our systems, and a lot > more work in researching whether or not a particular binary will cause > problems. > > What you'll probably have to do Spil is contact the maintainer of each > of those ports and request that some form of option or note be added to > the port/pkg_desc. > > Michael Lawver > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >