cupsd.conf IPv6

[e0000195 at student.tuwien.ac.at]

<-- this was me again! *gg*

> hi thanks for your quick help
>
> first of all, i have installed the cups-1.2.x-r4608.tar.gz; i tried using my printserver's ipv6-only fqdn ( Listen marge6.sylvia.test:631)
> but i get the error:
> No valid listen or port lines were found in the configuration file.
> httpGetHostByName("marge6.sylvia.test") failed - zu diesem namen gehört keine adresse (translation by me: no name belongs to this address)
> bad listen address marge6.sylvia.test
>
> of course, there is a working AAAA dns record for marge6 which i can ping as well. i didn't have to add ipv6 support manually? (st. like ./configure enable ipv6)?
> what did i configure wrong? is there any other file i have to edit?
> thank u so much for your help!!!
> best wishes
> sylvia
>
>
> > e0000195 at student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
> > > hi to all!
> > > currently i'm writing on my master thesis with the subject "migrating small business networks to ipv6" and of course, i want to migrate cups as well. when looking in the cupsd.conf i saw the line with Listen 127.0.0.1:631 --> how do you write an ipv6 address in here (so that it will not be misinterpreted as port)
> > > AND is there anything else to configure??
> > > as long as i didn't find any clue in ./configure -help  that i should include ipv6 support manually i assumed it is included automatically.
> > > thanks for your help in advance!
> >
> > Current CUPS does *not* support IPv6.  The 1.2 snapshots do, however
> > we haven't finished the support yet - one problem is the lack of IPv6
> > address support (hostnames are supported, but not numeric addresses),
> > but it will work the same as Apache:
> >
> >      Listen :::1:631
> >
> > --
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> > Internet Printing and Publishing Software        http://www.easysw.com
>