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Re: [reSIProcate] Opening a port under v4 and v6 simultaneously


On 8/24/05, Byron Campen <docfaraday@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was working with repro today, and found that once a port is opened
> (on a given protocol) under ipv4, attempting to open that same port/
> protocol under ipv6 results in a TransportException stating that the
> port is already in use. On inspection of the debug logs, however, I
> see that bind is returning an error number of 98, which strerror
> decodes to "Address already in use". Has anyone else encountered this
> problem?
Yes. This seems to be a problem on linux specifically. If you bind to
a specific interface, the problem goes away.