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|    Michiel van der Vlist to Binkd team    |
|    Bindaddr problems in dual stack    |
|    23 Oct 21 20:54:32    |
   
   TID: FMail-W32 2.1.3.7-B20170919   
   TZUTC: 0200   
   CHRS: CP850 2   
   PID: GED+W32 1.1.5-b20170303   
   MSGID: 2:280/5555 61745a68   
   Hello Binkd team,   
      
   The bindaddr keyword is used to select the IP address for making outgoing   
   calls in case there is more than one IP address that the system can use. This   
   is usefull in case one has more binkd clients running on one and the same   
   system or when one wants to override the system default in order to present a   
   2001:DB8::f1d0:zone:net:node address instead of a SLAAC or random privacy   
   address.   
      
      
   The problem.   
   ------------   
      
   bindaddr works fine in a single stack envionment (IPv4 or IPv6 only) but it   
   encounters problems in a dual stack environment.   
      
   bindaddr accepts a literal address (IPv4 or IPv6) or a hostname. Specifying   
   multiple bindaddr lines in the config does not result in an error, but only   
   the last takes effect.   
      
   specifying:   
      
   bindaddr fido.vlist.eu   
      
   or   
      
   bindaddr [2001:1c02:1103:2a00:f1d0:2:280:5555]   
      
   Results in binkd using that address for outgoing IPv6 calls.   
      
   In the windows version it results in a warning when making outgoing IPv4   
   calls: "bind: {W32 API error 10049} The requested address is not valid in its   
   context" or ."bind -- getaddrinfo: Der angegebene Host ist unbekannt. (11001)"   
      
   In the Linux version, the literal address must be specified without the square   
   brackets and attempts to make outgoing IPv4 calls fail. So one can not use   
   bindaddr to specify an outgoing IPv6 address without breaking outgoing IPv4   
   capability.   
      
      
   Proposed solution   
   -----------------   
      
   To remedie the situation I suggest to split up the bindaddr in an IPv6 and an   
   IPv4 part.   
      
   bindaddr6
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