Xymon Mailing List Archive search

IPv6 debugging on xymon 4.4 (was Re: Roadmap/GitHub?/IPv6)

list Christian Herzog
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:08:08 +0200
Message-Id: <user-3e102c42fe65@xymon.invalid>

Sorry, the "backfeed queue" :)

See README.backfeed: https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/branches/4.x-master/README.backfeed

The short of it is that it provides an alternate way of submitting messages
to xymond for local processes, using SysV-IPC instead of localhost TCP
connections. It's much more efficient for injecting lots of messages, but
sort of obviates the testing of xymond submissions over IPv6 :)
I see.
Looking into this more, I believe we'll be able to use the existing "conn"
framework for handling multiple IP addresses, but we may need a default set
of flags for how to handle priority and fallbacks on DNS lookup.

I'd envision something along the lines of:
IPv4 Only
IPv4 Mandatory/IPv6 Optional
IPv4 Optional/IPv6 Mandatory
IPv6 Only
I agree with Adam and even think
IPv4 Mandatory/IPv6 Mandatory
would be the default in our case.
I'll be ready to perform more tests after the Easter break.

cheers,
-d