Re: IPv6 patch

--On Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:24:41 -0500 Bruce Momjian
<pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>
>>
>> --On Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:20:31 -0500 Tom Lane
>> <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>
>> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> >> We already do. The issue is what way should we give admins to _fail_
>> >> if IPv6 doesn't start.
>> >
>> > What is "IPv6 doesn't start"? Either the machine has IPv6 addresses,
>> > or it doesn't. It is not our job to notify the DBA what the addresses
>> > on his machine are.
>> In the UnixWare case, you can't even find out if there is an IPv6
>> address, and
>> the API returns a wierd error, IIRC.
>
> I don't think we care about how IPv6 fails in our code --- we just fall
> back to IPv4.
Ok, just checking. IIRC, apache2 refused to start BECAUSE of the this
return
prior to Jeff Trawick's change of the check.

If someone wants to try it, I can generate an account. (Peter E. already
has one).

the machine is finally running a released OS again :-).

LER

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