[Bug 595840] setting udpsink's host property to "localhost" on ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) does not work

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595840
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-good | git

--- Comment #11 from Tristan Matthews <le.businessman at gmail.com> 2011-03-25 20:05:32 UTC ---
To summarize, udpsink's "host" property defaults to localhost, which on Ubuntu
9.04 and later resolves to an IPv6 address first by default (note that
gst_udp_get_addr in gstudpnetutils.c returns the first IPv4 OR IPv6 address
that it finds for a given hostname).

udpsrc meanwhile has a default "multicast-group" property of "0.0.0.0", which
is IPv4.

Therefore, on Ubuntu, udpsink will default to localhost over IPv6 and udpsrc
will default to IPv4, meaning that running the server and client examples in
gst-plugins-good, or doing any loopback tests with the defaults (i.e. not
forcing either IPv4 or IPv6 addresses) will quietly fail. I'm not sure if
there's a reasonable compromise for this, the workarounds being:

a)set host=127.0.0.1 on the udpsinks

OR

b)set host=localhost.localdomain on the udpsinks

OR

c)set multicast-group=:: on the udpsrcs


Here's my current /etc/hosts file:

10.10.10.203    tchip   # Added by NetworkManager
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
::1     tchip   localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
127.0.1.1       tchip

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

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