[systemd-devel] systemd-resolved fails without IPv6

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 12.08.14 17:01, Michael Olbrich (m.olbrich at pengutronix.de) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Without IPv6 systemd-resolved fails to start with:
> 
> Failed to start manager: Address family not supported by protocol
> 
> strace tells me this is the errno from socket():
> [...]
> socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_DGRAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC|SOCK_NONBLOCK, IPPROTO_IP) = -1 EAFNOSUPPORT (Address family not supported by protocol)
> [...]
> 
> I think this is from manager_llmnr_ipv6_udp_fd().
> 
> Is IPv6 now mandatory, or should this be fixed?

It should be fixed. resolved should not require IPv6 to be available.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat