Bug#688470: Test of d-i in IPv6-only environment (was: Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg)

2012-10-02 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 02:52:30AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Philipp Kern (01/10/2012): > > It worked with on/off, on/on, just not off/on. Rev 762daa6[1] should > > fix that. I did not have time to test it in all circumstances, > > though. I uploaded the mini.iso to [2]. > Is that worth a ne

Bug#688470: Test of d-i in IPv6-only environment (was: Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg)

2012-10-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Philipp Kern (01/10/2012): > It worked with on/off, on/on, just not off/on. Rev 762daa6[1] should > fix that. I did not have time to test it in all circumstances, > though. I uploaded the mini.iso to [2]. Is that worth a new netcfg/debian-installer upload? From where I stand, it looks like it sho

Bug#688470: Test of d-i in IPv6-only environment (was: Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg)

2012-10-01 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 07:24:33PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > I have just run a test with today's daily netinst > (http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/mini.iso, > dated 01-Oct-2012 00:11) with the same setup (IPv6-only network, > radvd announces prefix and RDNSS, AdvOtherConf

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-24 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:08:08AM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > Given that DNS seems to tend to resolve localhost to both 127.0.0.1 > and ::1, I guess the proper solution would be to put the same in to > /etc/hosts. DNS does not resolve localhost in most instances I tried (or to just 127.0.0.1).

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-24 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Philipp Kern 2012-09-18 <20120918090525.ga...@spike.0x539.de> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:59:04AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > > No, I didn't get any wiser. Except that I now am pretty convinced that > > no service should listen to "localhost". They should explictly choose > > 127.0.0.1 and/or

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:59:04AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > No, I didn't get any wiser. Except that I now am pretty convinced that > no service should listen to "localhost". They should explictly choose > 127.0.0.1 and/or ::1 AIUI the point is to listen to both and hence the (or a?) record shou

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Bjørn Mork
Philipp Kern writes: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:25:06AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: >> For example: >> >> bjorn@canardo:~$ grep localhost /etc/hosts >> 127.0.0.1 localhost >> ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback >> >> bjorn@canardo:~$ host localhost >> localhost has addres

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Bjørn Mork
Philipp Kern writes: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:30:58PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Sep 17, Philipp Kern wrote: >> > True, but somehow I feel that freeze time is not the time to change this. >> I disagree, netcfg should be fixed. There is plenty of time to look at >> any fallback, and eve

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:25:06AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > For example: > > bjorn@canardo:~$ grep localhost /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1 localhost > ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback > > bjorn@canardo:~$ host localhost > localhost has address 127.0.0.1 > localhost has

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:30:58PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 17, Philipp Kern wrote: > > True, but somehow I feel that freeze time is not the time to change this. > I disagree, netcfg should be fixed. There is plenty of time to look at > any fallback, and even reverting the change if ne

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 17, Philipp Kern wrote: > True, but somehow I feel that freeze time is not the time to change this. I disagree, netcfg should be fixed. There is plenty of time to look at any fallback, and even reverting the change if needed. This is 2012, Europe and Asia are out of IPv4 networks and we c

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:44:12PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > From my point of view, localhost should be handled like any other > multi-homed host, that is, it should have both addresses. It might > have been different in 2010, wenn netcfg 1.57 was uploaded, but > nowadays applications really n

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-07 Thread Christoph Berg
Package: netbase,netcfg Severity: normal Tags: d-i ipv6 In #685362, a user complains that PostgreSQL doesn't listen on ipv6 localhost, unless he has "::1 localhost" in his /etc/hosts. I can confirm that adding this fixes the problem for postgresql-9.1. Looking through my systems, I'm seeing differ