On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 11:29:11PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
| > > Anyway, I believe at least -inet6 is a better default than the current
| > > situation.
| > -inet6 as the default seems more OpenBSD'ish to me. Everything off
| > that can be off, but not more.
|
| there is way more to it than "the default".
| there is no easy way to get rid of ipvshit completely, short of
| recompiling w/o option INET6.
| every interface you take up has that linklocal shit, unless you give
| -inet6 for each and every one every time, which is very easy to miss.
| thus I do think we want a net.inet6.ip.enable sysctl or the like,
| which, if not set to 1, enforces -inet6 on all ifs.
|
| what the default of such a sysctl would be is another discussion -
| any value is fine with me as long as it is 0.
Well, I would expect to get ::1 as much as I get 127.0.0.1. I believe
the tendency to treat IPv4 different than IPv6 is wrong. Just -inet6
on interfaces except lo0 seems like a step in the right direction.
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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