1575968 - Add strsclnt option to enforce the use of either IPv4 or IPv6

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(NSS :: Tools, defect, P1)

Description

[Kevin Jacobs [:kjacobs]]

While testing a patch for bug 1485533, I hit some strsclnt timeouts on taskcluster Mac. The cause is strsclnt attempting to open an IPv6 socket to connect to seflserv, which binds as IPv4.

There seems to be a lot of history and some abandoned patches on this issue, but the simplest solution is to apply the patch from bug 908617 to strsclnt. That is, to add "-4" and "-6" switches, allowing the user to specify the appropriate version. The default behavior will remain unchanged.

Comment 1

[Kevin Jacobs [:kjacobs]]

Attachment: Bug 1575968 - Add strsclnt option to enforce the use of either IPv4 or IPv6

Comment 2

[J.C. Jones [:jcj] (he/him)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/da284d8993eac4299f9a9fe4522bcdcfa2dda62a