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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