[mythtv-commits] Ticket #10165: port 6544 listening only on ipv6

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#10165: port 6544 listening only on ipv6
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 Reporter:  warpme@…               |          Owner:  danielk
     Type:  Bug Report - General   |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  minor                  |      Milestone:  unknown
Component:  MythTV - Mythtv-setup  |        Version:  Trunk Head
 Severity:  medium                 |     Resolution:  Invalid
 Keywords:                         |  Ticket locked:  0
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Comment (by gcc@…):

 The original reporter of this bug has an IPv6-capable system, but he uses
 only IPv4 addresses.  This is what Fedora 16 is providing by default, for
 example.  He was correct in asserting that port 6544 is being bound to an
 IPv6 address on his IPv6-capable system.  The root cause is
 MythCoreContext::MythHostAddressAny() returns an IPv6 unspecified address
 if any IPv6 addresses were detected on the host; it doesn't consider the
 fact that you never configured any IPv6 addresses for use with the
 mythbackend.  You can have success connecting via an IPv4-only transport
 to that IPv6-bound port, which provides a semblance of working operation.
 Other parts of the system, however, break.  In the UPnP support, URLBase
 will be reported as something similar to "[::FFFF:C0A8:B47]:6544" rather
 than "192.168.11.71:6544".  The IPv6 address is unusable by any device
 which expects IPv4-only addresses.  One way to fix the problem is to
 modify MediaServer::Init() so that the httpServer listen() is done with an
 IPv4 QHostAddress::Any unless an explicit IPv6 address was used to define
 BackendServerIP address; in that case, use QHostAddress::AnyIPv6.

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