Re: v6 mapped v4 wildcard address fails with EADDRNOTAVAIL

[David Miller]

From: Dirk Engling <erdgeist@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:03:48 +0100 (CET)

> after implementing an ipv6 mode in my bittorrent tracker software opentracker I got lot of complaints from linux users (unfortunally thepiratebay being one of them) telling me that using the software in v4-mode stopped working when they specified the ip address 0.0.0.0
> 
> This seems to be due to the linux kernel handling some v6-mapped v4 addresses differently, with 0.0.0.0 being one of them.

This was discussed to death on netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, see the
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