Subj : Automatically blocking co
To   : DIGITAL MAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Thu Jun 06 2024 04:09 pm

>  > Hmmmm... which setting would I want to set if I wanted to tell synchronet
>  > not to allow the port to be reused by another process?

> On Linux, that'd be REUSEADDR = FALSE

Thanks.  This has been updated!

>  > I also see that IPV6_V6ONLY = 1 .  What does that one do?

> From https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/ipv6.7.html

>               If this flag is set to true (nonzero), then the socket is
>               restricted to sending and receiving IPv6 packets only.  In
>               this case, an IPv4 and an IPv6 application can bind to a
>               single port at the same time.

>               If this flag is set to false (zero), then the socket can
>               be used to send and receive packets to and from an IPv6
>               address or an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address.

Since I don't use IPV6 here, would I want to set that to zero/false?  It
does not appear to be causing any issues (that I know of).


* SLMR 2.1a * Happiness is a positive cash flow.
---
� Synchronet � CAPCITY2 * capcity2.synchro.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/Rlogin/HTTP

You are viewing proxied material from cvs.synchro.net. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.