[jboss-remoting-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBREM-1164) Remoting shouldn't require IPv6 addresses to be surrounded by brackets

[Richard Achmatowicz (JIRA)]

    [ https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBREM-1164?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12494212#action_12494212 ] 

Richard Achmatowicz commented on JBREM-1164:
--------------------------------------------

Apolgies for the delay in responding to your posting, Ron. Got bogged down a bit.

I am in complete agreement with your analysis. In the interim, I was working on JBPAPP-3018, and found that all Remoting IPv6 issues could be solved with two mechanisms:
(i) a change to Connector to cause it to check for and properly construct InvokerLocator URIs, assuming that the serverBindAddress does not contain enclosing brackets (as you rightly pointed out that it should not)   
(ii) when specifying InvokerLocator URLs explicitly, use a newly defined system property jboss.bind.url.address in place of jboss.bind.address in the URL
(e.g socket://${jboss.bind.url.address}:${port}) where the function of this system property is to provide a hostname suitable for enclosure in a URL. This was suggested by DML.

Only the former requires a change, and I gave an example patch on JBPAPP-3018. With these two changes in place, the AS 4.2.x CP branch seems to start OK. Checking JNDIView and the logs reveals no remoting related IPv4 addresses when binding with an IPv6 bind address. This isn't a guarantee that all is well, but its a good start. Unfortunately, there are other issues to work out before we can run the testsuite with IPv6 bind addresses and no brackets.

The change also does not affect existing IPv4 usage.




> Remoting shouldn't require IPv6 addresses to be surrounded by brackets
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBREM-1164
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBREM-1164
>             Project: JBoss Remoting
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>    Affects Versions: 2.5.2 (Flounder)
>            Reporter: Ron Sigal
>            Assignee: Ron Sigal
>             Fix For: 2.5.2.SP1 (Flounder)
>
>
> Although IPv6 addresses are surrounded by brackets in URLs, the addresses themselves don't have brackets.  Thus, it should be possible to start the Application Server with
>    run.sh -b ::1
> instead of requiring
>    run.sh -b [::1]

-- 
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
-
If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa
-
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira