[Pdns-users] When I enable master, It opens issues with ipv6

[Charles Sprickman]

On Jul 21, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Stefan Schmidt wrote:

> Hi Charles,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Charles Sprickman <spork at bway.net> wrote:
>>> http://old.nabble.com/startup-fails-when-%22master%3Dyes%22-tc31696172.html
>>> 
>>> Even if you don't need IPv6, you need to have an IPv6 loopback or
>>> link-local IP.
> 
> Ah now i remember reading about this issue. Thank you for reminding us.
> Interestingly enough even with the deployment of PowerDNS Server on
> virtuozzo and openvz containers i never encountered this problem.
> Being quite the network geek, i always enable IPv6 in kernels though
> as well, you know legacy IP(v4) is doomed anyway. ;-)

I also recall that the issue only shows up when you run in a master/slave setup, not in native mode.  Just wanted to clarify that.

And I was certainly not going to argue for the removal of the IPv6 requirement.  The more I play with it, the more eager I am to see more people start using it.

Charles

> 
> Stefan