inets crashing in R10B-6

[UAB L/K Peter Andersson]

Hi Serge,

Yes, we've made some updates in both kernel and inets with regards to
IPv6 handling. We had a resolver problem that could cause inets to
believe IPv6 was working properly when, in fact, there was no support
for IPv6 on the host.

The behaviour you get when starting inets looks bad. inets is supposed
to be able to fall back to IPv4 if IPv6 is not working properly. For
some reason, the fix we made seems to rather have introduced the problem
on your system. Weird. We'll have to look into this promptly!

What OS are you using?

Best regards,
Peppe

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Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
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Serge Aleynikov wrote:
> 
> I set up a trace on gen_tcp:listen, and see that httpd is trying to bind
> to inet6, which is indeed the root of this problem on this host:
> 
> 5> dbg:tracer().
> {ok,<0.47.0>}
> 6> dbg:p(all,call).
> {ok,[{matched,nonode@REDACTED,25}]}
> 7> dbg:tpl(httpd_transport, listen, dbg:fun2ms(fun(_) -> return_trace()
> end)).
> {ok,[{matched,nonode@REDACTED,0},{saved,1}]}
> 8> dbg:tpl(gen_tcp, listen, dbg:fun2ms(fun(_) -> return_trace() end)).
> 
> {ok,[{matched,nonode@REDACTED,1},{saved,1}]}
> 9> httpd:start_link(["../priv/inets.conf"]).
> (<0.59.0>) call
> gen_tcp:listen(8080,[inet6,{ip,any},{packet,0},{active,false},{backlog,128},{reuseaddr,true}])
> (<0.59.0>) returned from gen_tcp:listen/2 -> {error,eafnosupport}
> ** exited: shutdown **
> 
> How can I force httpd not to use inet6?  Did some default setting change
> in R10B-6?  I see this statement in the release notes, but not sure if
> it is related:
> 
>    OTP-5576 When doing an inet6 name lookup on an IPv4 address it was
>             possible to get an address on IPv4 format back. This has been
>            corrected. Some other minor inconsistencies regarding IPv6
>            name lookup have also been corrected.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Serge
> 
> Serge Aleynikov wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I upgraded Erlang to R10B-6 and for some reason inets keeps crashing at
> > startup.  Before upgrading it worked under R10B-5 with no problems.
> >
> >  >erl
> > Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.4.8 [source] [hipe] [threads:0]
> >
> > Eshell V5.4.8  (abort with ^G)
> > 1>httpd:start_link(["../priv/inets.conf"]).
> >
> > =SUPERVISOR REPORT==== 24-Jun-2005::17:58:36 ===
> >      Supervisor: {local,httpd_instance_sup_8080}
> >      Context:    start_error
> >      Reason:     {{listen,eafnosupport},
> >                   {child,undefined,
> >                          {httpd_acceptor,any,8080},
> >                          {httpd_acceptor,
> >                              start_link,
> >                              [<0.66.0>,
> >                               ip_comm,
> >                               any,
> >                               8080,
> >                               httpd_conf_8080,
> >                               silence]},
> >                          permanent,
> >                          1000,
> >                          worker,
> >                          [httpd_acceptor]}}
> > ...
> >
> > Here is the content of "../priv/inets.conf":
> > ------BEGIN---------
> > BindAddress    *
> > Port           8080
> > ServerName     wwwproxy
> >
> > ServerRoot     ../priv
> > DocumentRoot   ../priv/docroot
> > Modules        mod_alias mod_auth mod_actions mod_include mod_dir
> > mod_get mod_head
> >
> > DirectoryIndex index.html
> >
> > ErlScriptAlias /erl io io_lib server_mgr
> > ------END---------
> >
> > Any idea how to configure it in order to avoid this
> > {listen,eafnosupport} "address family not supported by protocol family"
> > error?
> >
> > Serge
> >
> 
> --
> Serge Aleynikov
> R&D Telecom, IDT Corp.
> Tel: (973) 438-3436
> Fax: (973) 438-1464
> serge@REDACTED