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Brian Stansberry commented on AS7-4509:
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The algorithm here is based on matching a user input against the interfaces/addresses
available on the system. Once an available interface/address is matched, that is what is
used. And I believe the original report is correct; if the zone id is not specified the
algorithm will produce indeterminate results. In the simple (and most common) case it will
use the first checked interface/address that has the same address bytes as what the user
provided. That's why I accepted this JIRA by cloning it into the AS7 project.
CLONE - Server start without any problem or message even
specification of IP address(-s) is ambiguous
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Key: AS7-4509
URL:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-4509
Project: Application Server 7
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Domain Management
Affects Versions: 7.1.1.Final
Reporter: Pavel Janousek
Assignee: Brian Stansberry
Labels: eap6_ipv6
Fix For: 7.1.2.Final-redhat1
In IPv6 world it is possible if two or more network interfaces has the same IPv6 address.
It is legally and true especially in Link-local address scope.
So if we configure 2 or more network interfaces with a manually defined IPv6 address
(link-local prefix fe80::/10 is the best) and try to start-up EAP and do this
like:{code}./standalone.sh -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=false -b=fe80::200:ff:fe00:5
-bmanagement=fe80::200:ff:fe00:5 -c standalone-full.xml{code}there isn't *any* warning
message reported, nor any notice that this specification is ambiguous.
I prefer in a such case to reject this specification as ambiguous (especially for the
case - there is a risk of accidentally open EAP instance to the world), refuse start with
error message and immediately exit. Although this situation has its roots in administrator
mistake, it can became very hard risk of customer's data when it will be overseen for
awhile. (*)
(*) some case-studies report blind clear MS Windows station is attacked up to 10 minutes
from it boot when is directly connected to unsecure Internet network without any firewall
etc... my own personal experience is at least the same... - yes, it is dangerous to work
in a such environment and situation on a Internet directly connected server host, but an
admins really works like that...
Anyway - the missed part of specification needed for correct set-up in this case is *zone
id* identifier. When it is supplied, star-up is correct.
Although this is really +edge case+ of using EAP and its configuration, it can
accidentally expose customer's sensitive data so we should take it very carefully.
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