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From: Martin List-Petersen (martin_at_list-petersen.se)
Date: Tue 18 Nov 2003 - 21:22:11 GMT


On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 19:40, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:15:11PM +0100, Dariusz Rubinkiewicz wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Dnia Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 05:08:26PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl napisa(a):
> > > okay, this is a trace of the 'forking' parent
> > > probably because it daemonizes() ... so we either
> > > need a run with '-debug' or whatever keeps it from
> > > forking, or strace -fF -s 4096
> >
> >
> > strace -o log2.txt -fF -s 4096 /etc/init.d/courier-pop start
> >
> > http://debesciak.net/log2.txt
>
> well, it seems that this piece of code tries to
> attach to an ipv6 address:
>
> 5787 bind(5, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(110), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::ffff:62.181.4.38", &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=0, sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = -1 EADDRINUSE (Address already in use)
>
> which is not supported (at least not the virtualization)
> by vserver, so stopping the courier-pop from doing so
> might help a lot ...
>

It's the IPv6 brokeness of vserver that i discussed with Paul Sladen at
DebConf 3.

courier-imap / courier-pop3 is one of programs, that tries to bind "*"
at ipv6 level only and thus also asks for ipv4 addresses. However that
way it circumvents your vserver contexts and binds port 143 (or port
110) at all ip's.

Or: it simply fails because it can't get them all.

Don't use vserver and ipv6 together, it hurts your security.
I only use them together on systems that I alone have access to.

Regards,
Martin List-Petersen
martin at list-petersen dot se

--
All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
-- Larry Wall


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