On 04/15/2014 11:27 AM, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote:
> John Jasen <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> As a quick sanity check, the ftp-proxy daemon in OpenBSD 5.4 through
>> -current does NOT listen on IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously?
> 
> As documented.

Yes, forgive me for not mentioning that.

It is buried under -6 in the man page, however. Perhaps some text should
also be included in the description.

>> In order to support FTP over IPv4 and IPv6, two running ftp-proxy
>> daemons would be required, one with the -6 flag?
> 
> Yup.  Well, if you need ftp-proxy in the first place.  Are you sure you
> need FTP btw? :)
> 
>> If so, I do not see an immediate way to fire two ftp-proxy instances in
>> rc.conf.* -- would one of them have to be triggered from rc.local? Or is
>> there a cleaner way?
> 
> They can't be started by the same, unmodified rc.d/ftpproxy script*.
> I'd start both from rc.local to prevent confusion.
> 
> * if it had to be integrated with rc.d(8), that would mean adding
>   a ftpproxy6 script, hooking it in /etc/rc and adding a -4 flag to
>   ftpproxy so that the daemons command lines differ properly for rc.d(8)
>   signalling.

Thanks. That was precisely the clarification I was looking for.

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