hg: bsd-port/jdk8/jdk: Disable forcing ipv4 to ipv6 address mapping on using the
    Christos Zoulas 
    christos at zoulas.com
       
    Sun Apr  2 01:22:30 UTC 2017
    
    
  
On Apr 1,  4:03pm, glewis at eyesbeyond.com (Greg Lewis) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: hg: bsd-port/jdk8/jdk: Disable forcing ipv4 to ipv6 address m
| Hi Kurt,
| 
| Should this be disabled for all BSDs?  What are the security concerns?
I think so; it allows two separate processes to bind to the same
port (RFC-3493) which can be used to confuse people and hijack
connections.  A safer choice is to require specifying this behavior.
christos
    
    
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