• Table of contents
• Software that needs to be improved for IPv6
  • xrdp
  • hackney
  • cpanel
  • Openconnect
  • VPNC
  • Clojure
  • NodeJS/NPM

Software that needs to be improved for IPv6¶

xrdp¶

Does not listen on IPv6 sockets under Linux. See the github bug

Applicable for at least version xrdp-0.9.13.1.

hackney¶

... is a very popular Erlang HTTP client. It is used by many Elixir libraries. It's not possible to configure IPv6
(see github bug). It is also used by Pleroma

cpanel¶

cpanel only resolves IPv4 addresses.

Code from 2017:

  sub _resolveIpAddress
   my ( $host, %p_options ) = @_;

  @addresses = Socket::getaddrinfo( $host, ( $p_options{'ipv6'} ? &Socket::AF_INET6 : &Socket::AF_INET ) );

however p_options is always empty!

Log from 2019

 Today at 9:51 PM
 @cPanelPhilH We are having 3-4 customers in the backlog for cpanel support - do you have a statement that we can forward in terms of timing for IPv6 only support?
 cPanelPhilHToday at 9:52 PM
 We have no plans of delivering IPv6 only support at this time, however that may change based on a number of factors, including demand.
 LucasRolff (DramaQueen)Today at 9:53 PM
 @cPanelPhilH https://snaps.trollcdn.com/XIGYoS5sLCV7mqt1E1f2NoFRvxAjZl5NtrTJ0wIEXa.png

 It always complain about "Missing period" and "Missing comma(s) with interrupter" 
 cPanelPhilHToday at 9:53 PM
 @LucasRolff (DramaQueen) i only hit 11K this week
 LucasRolff (DramaQueen)Today at 9:53 PM
 As long as your beer counter went up then it's ok
 ungleichToday at 9:54 PM
 Fair enough! In that case we will look into alternatives for these
 customers at the moment. If you are interested in actively pursuing
 it, we are open to helping you with infrastructure and knowledge -
 just give me a ping.

Openconnect¶

"Invalid host entry" when connecting to the VPN host via NAT64:

 Openconnect: not sure
 [19:39] freiheit:~%  openconnect --user=ABC --usergroup=XXX  sslvpn.example.ch
 POST https://sslvpn.example.ch/XXXX
 Connected to [2a0a:e5c0:0:1:0:1:....:....]:443
 SSL negotiation with sslvpn.example.ch
 Connected to HTTPS on sslvpn.example.ch
 XML POST enabled
 Invalid host entry. Please re-enter.
 Failed to obtain WebVPN cookie
 [19:40] freiheit:~%

This might be an endpoint / configuration issue.

VPNC¶

• Resolves host names only for IPv4

Clojure¶

• clojure boot has no ipv6 support in the binary (open since 2019)
• clojure/lein/maven missing ipv6 support (open since 2015)

NodeJS/NPM¶

• -npm install does not work on an IPv6 only network #6857-
  • closed, but not fixed
• -order of getaddrinfo results not respected #6307-
  • closed, but not fixed!
• dns: add `verbatim` option to dns.lookup() #14731
  • closed, but not fixed!
• npm fails to install on IPv6 only networks