Re: TCP/IP with 7.4 beta2 broken?

Tom Lane wrote:

>Tommi =?iso-8859-15?q?M=E4kitalo?= <t(dot)maekitalo(at)epgmbh(dot)de> writes:
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>>For remote connections I added:
>>host all all ::ffff:192.168.41.0/120 trust
>>and it worked also (I guessed it - I don't know much about IPv6). Is
>>there any chance to get it work like 7.3? It is no nice experience for
>>new users.
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>Are you saying it does not work with just 192.168.41.0/24 ? That would
>be really unfortunate --- it suggests that your kernel pretends that
>IPv4 connections are IPv6.
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Tom,
we discussed this problem some months ago when I started using 7.4 on
SuSE 8.1. Since 7.4 accepts IPV6, the kernel will always deliver IPV6
addresses, that's why I find most IPV6 problems. While this behaviour
might be irritating, it shouldn't be much of a problem if known.

How about silently creating a IPV6 style host internally for every IPV4
pg_hba.conf entry? It won't make any sense to handle a real IPV4 address
different from an IPV4 address converted to IPV6 address space.

Regards,
Andreas