Re: TCP/IP with 7.4 beta2 broken?

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Tommi M?kitalo wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >that worked for localhost. For remote connections I added:
> >
> >host  all         all         ::ffff:192.168.41.0/120                trust
> >
> >and it worked also (I guessed it - I don't know much about IPv6). Is there any 
> >chance to get it work like 7.3? It is no nice experience for new users.
> >
> >  
> >
> This isn't really a pgsql problem, but special about SuSE Linux which 
> enables IPV6 by default. Maybe there should be a warning somewhere that 
> a growing number of Linux versions might be IPV6 enabled and thus 
> pg_pba.conf needs to respect this.

Ouch --- everything is IPv6.  Wow, that is unusual.  I assumed that
folks who have OS's that do that will put IPv6 addresses in pg_hba.conf.
I don't see that we should be auto-converting pg_hba.conf to IPv6 if the
kernel thinks everything is IPv6.

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