Resolve hostname to IPv6 address in listen directive
Piotr Sikora
piotr.sikora at frickle.com
Wed Aug 25 22:01:17 MSD 2010
Hi,
> Note well: listen with hostname always uses *one* address returned
> by hostname lookup, the first one returned by gethostbyname(). It
> doesn't make sense to attempt to use it with hostname which
> resolves to multiple addresses.
But is that correct behavior? Shouldn't nginx listen on all of them?
> I believe correct solution would be to make
>
> listen example.com;
>
> to use ipv6 address if no ipv4 addresses were found.
Why not on both?
Best regards,
Piotr Sikora < piotr.sikora at frickle.com >
More information about the nginx-devel
mailing list