[OpenSIPS-Users] How to ensure current IPV6 listening address

[Răzvan Crainea]

Done[1]. Getting an account is not that hard, and will help you to 
follow the request easier, as well as show to the community your 
contribution :).

[1] https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/issues/976

BR

Răzvan Crainea
OpenSIPS Solutions
www.opensips-solutions.com

On 10/26/2016 10:41 PM, Robert Dyck wrote:
> I am reluctant to take out a github membership to simply request a feature.
> Perhaps someone with an existing membership could request the feature.
>
> Opensips currently is unable to detect the IPV6 address of an interface when
> given the interface name in the configuration. This is a request to implement
> that capability.
>
> On October 26, 2016 04:20:23 PM Răzvan Crainea wrote:
>> Hi, Robert!
>>
>> After further documenting, it seems that linux can only provide IPv4
>> interfaces (for more info, see [1], check for SIOCGIFCONF). In order to
>> support IPv6, we need to find a different way to get the addresses.
>> Please open a feature request on our tracker[2], and we will check how
>> to support this.
>>
>> [1] https://linux.die.net/man/7/netdevice
>> [2] https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/issues
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Răzvan Crainea
>> OpenSIPS Solutions
>> www.opensips-solutions.com
>>
>> On 10/20/2016 02:21 PM, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
>>> Hi Robert,
>>>
>>> If you use in the listener definition the name of an interface, it
>>> should detect IPV6 too. Is this working ?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
>>> OpenSIPS Founder and Developer
>>> http://www.opensips-solutions.com
>>>
>>> On 20.10.2016 00:35, Robert Dyck wrote:
>>>> Thanks for your input. The second scenario doesn't appear to be an
>>>> issue.
>>>>
>>>>    If opensips can detect the IPV4 address on an interface should it
>>>>
>>>> be only a
>>>> minor enhancement to detect the IPV6 address?
>>>>
>>>> On October 19, 2016 11:09:50 PM Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
>>>>> Hi Robert,
>>>>>
>>>>> I see here two aspects:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) how to determine the IP at OpenSIPS startup - you need to perform
>>>>> the
>>>>> IPv6 detection in a pre-start script and feed it to OpenSIPS. That is
>>>>> the way it should be
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) if the IP changes during runtime, there is nothing you can do rather
>>>>> then restarting - OpenSIPS cannot change listeners during runtime.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
>>>>> OpenSIPS Founder and Developer
>>>>> http://www.opensips-solutions.com
>>>>>
>>>>> On 19.10.2016 19:14, Robert Dyck wrote:
>>>>>> Using 1.10.5
>>>>>> My ISP provides an IPV6 prefix which unfortunately is not static. My
>>>>>> address does not change spontaneously but if the host is down for a
>>>>>> significant time the address will change.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I thought it would be simply solved by specifying a listening
>>>>>> interface in
>>>>>> the configuration file. Unfortunately that only picks up the IPV4
>>>>>> address.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a DDNS provider and I can specify a domain name in the
>>>>>> configuration but my concern is that the address bound to the
>>>>>> domain name
>>>>>> may be stale at the moment that opensips comes up. Does opensips
>>>>>> verify
>>>>>> an address obtained through DNS?
>>>>>>
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