IPv6 Patch
dormando
dormando at rydia.net
Thu Jan 31 22:03:56 UTC 2008
Brian Aker wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Jan 30, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Tomash Brechko wrote:
>
>> The DNS fear is stretched too far. You are basically saying that one
>> should never ever bind to site-local address because there's a
>> possibility that it is visible form the outside, and is not protected
>
> Because bad setups never occur with DNS? A sysadmin never binds a public
> address to an internal and external device, not realizing that is some
> program comes along it will be exposed to the outside world?
>
> Memcached has no password protection, so doesn't it make sense to have
> an ounce more protection? (and it is not like memcached is designed to
> be a mutli-listener... and getaddrinfo() returns even junk like AF_UNIX
> on older glibc).
>
> I can patch it to bail on multi available, but that will cause older
> glibc() to toss any binding (and the FreeBSD 4.x guys will be submitting
> a patch later to just ignore all all entries past the first when they
> hit this problem).
So:
getaddrinfo() returns a list.
If you're setting the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag it'll at least only return
addresses which are available on the interface (ipv6 only, etc).
But if a hostname returns multiple addresses (getaddrinfo(NULL, ...))
and the host might be a dedicated server with a private net, it'll bind
to both the public address and private address?
I'm not entirely clear on the conditions where getaddrinfo would suggest
you bind to both a public and a private address, unless you're binding
to INADDR_ANY, which I _believe_ is the present default for memcached,
and will certainly bind to any public IP if it exists.
Could someone perhaps clear it up a bit? Is this identical or different
to the present IPv4 default behavior, and if this is going to be
different, we might need a new option to accomodate. IE; if someone
wants to bind to a private-network in IPv4 land, they presently use -l,
but if you're binding by hostname in IPv6, it makes sense (to me) to
continue to allow someone to select a private address.
Unless I'm completely off here :P
-Dormando
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