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Re: Portmap RPC registration fails


On May  8 22:41, Ken wrote:
> Further to this post... With a struggle I built libtirpc.a and traced
> execution. Ultimately this is failing in clnt_vc.c. The following call in
> clnt_vc_create:
> 
>   connect(fd, (struct sockaddr *)raddr->buf, raddr->len)
> 
> supplies an IPV6 address with hex values:
> 
>   006F 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 0000 0000 3300
> 
> The codes's own diagnostics report:
> 
>   Got ua [::1.0.111]
>   netbuf len = 28, maxlen = 28
>   Address is 23.0.0.111.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.0.0.
>   rpcbind clnt interface: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused
> 
> The above doesn't look like a plausible IPV6 address. I have IPV6 enabled on
> my network adapter. Is it possible that portmap isn't compatible with IPV6?
> That would explain why older code (such as CygWin NFS Server - IPV4) is able
> to register with portmap.

portmap and the entire sunrpc package is pretty old stuff.  They are not
used anymore on Linux and BSD afaik, but there's replacement code in a
not so easy portable way.

Portmap and the rest of the sunrpc code is not overly complicated, though.
With a bit of effort it should be possible to make it IPv6-aware.  However,
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI


Corinna

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