Well that's a start I guess. It does look to me like they're only binding one port number, which would be what I was hoping for. I'll see if I can muster some time later to try something on my server and see if it will at least bind. I don't have IPv6 connectivity at home to verify it with though.

You might try on the VPS. I can't remember if it has IPv6 or not.

Yours doesn't, mine does. I'll take a look at it a bit later.

Test code for init_socket (ignore the bogus return at the end for now):

int init_socket( int mudport )
{
   struct addrinfo hints, *res, *ptr;
   char mport[MIL];
   int sock[16];
   int rc, count=0;
   int x = 1;

   memset( &hints, 0, sizeof hints );
   hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;
   hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
   hints.ai_protocol = IPPROTO_TCP;
   hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE;

   snprintf( mport, MIL, "%d", mudport );
   if( (rc = getaddrinfo( NULL, mport, &hints, &res )) < 0 )
   {
      perror( "Init_socket: getaddrinfo" );
      exit(1);
   }

   ptr = res;

   while( ptr )
   {
log_printf( "Count: %d", count );
log_printf( "Family: %d, Socktype: %d, Proto: %d", ptr->ai_family, ptr->ai_socktype, ptr->ai_protocol );
      if( (sock[count] = socket( ptr->ai_family, ptr->ai_socktype, ptr->ai_protocol )) < 0 )
      {
         perror( "Init_socket: socket" );
         exit(1);
      }
log_printf( "Sock: %d", sock[count] );
      if( setsockopt( sock[count], SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, ( void * )&x, sizeof( x ) ) < 0 )
      {
         perror( "Init_socket: SO_REUSEADDR" );
         close( sock[count] );
         exit( 1 );
      }

      if( bind( sock[count], ptr->ai_addr, ptr->ai_addrlen ) < 0 )
      {
         perror( "Init_socket: bind" );
         close( sock[count] );
         exit( 1 );
      }

      if( listen( sock[count], 50 ) < 0 )
      {
         perror( "Init_socket: listen" );
         close( sock[count] );
         exit( 1 );
      }
      count++;
      ptr = ptr->ai_next;
   }
   return sock[count];
}

Result:

Thu Dec 29 03:45:58 2011 :: Initializing socket
Thu Dec 29 03:45:58 2011 :: Count: 0
Thu Dec 29 03:45:58 2011 :: Family: 2, Socktype: 1, Proto: 6
Thu Dec 29 03:45:58 2011 :: Sock: 3
Thu Dec 29 03:45:58 2011 :: Count: 1
Thu Dec 29 03:45:58 2011 :: Family: 10, Socktype: 1, Proto: 6
Thu Dec 29 03:45:58 2011 :: Sock: 4
Init_socket: bind: Address already in use

So it's back to the same old crap as before. Not allowing to bind everything to one port, despite the obvious fact that other services on the box are doing so without issue. Something is clearly missing here but I have no idea what.

Hmm. I'm curious about this part that I found in one of the later examples at the page I mentioned earlier. Would something like this make a difference?

                        // After the socket descriptor is created, a bind() function gets a
                        // unique name for the socket.  In this example, the user sets the
                        // address to in6addr_any, which (by default) allows connections to
                        // be established from any IPv4 or IPv6 client based on the hostname
                        // that specifies port 7171.
                        // That is, the bind is done to both the IPv4 and IPv6 TCP/IP
                        // stacks. However this sample program only accept the IPv4 hostname, then
                        // the client must prepare to convert the IPv4 address to the hostname
                        // before translating the IP string to network address before making a connection
                        // using various Winsock API such as getaddressinfo() etc.

                        memset(&serveraddr, 0, sizeof(serveraddr));
                        serveraddr.sin6_family = AF_INET6;
                        serveraddr.sin6_port   = htons(SERVER_PORT);

                        // Applications use in6addr_any similarly to the way they use
                        // INADDR_ANY in IPv4.

                        serveraddr.sin6_addr   = in6addr_any;

                        // The remaining fields in the sockaddr_in6 are currently not
                        // supported and should be set to 0 to ensure upward compatibility

                        if (bind(sd, (struct sockaddr *)&serveraddr, sizeof(serveraddr)) == SOCKET_ERROR)

I'm no expert on sockets (maybe someday if I have more time!) but maybe this is helpful.

That appears to be wanting to open this as an IPv6 only socket though. Unless there's no other way to do this that's not really what we're after here.

Checking in to see if anything new has developed on this front? Anyone?

Nope. Apparently there's just not enough interest in moving on this. I'd still like to see it get added at some point but only if IPv4 and IPv6 traffic can live on the same port somehow.

I also don't have access to a server with IPv6 capability anymore, nor do I have IPv6 network access at home (yeah, thanks Verizon, for being so backward).

Here is my init_socket that seems to work.

int init_socket(int port)
{
  char mport[MIL];
	int sockfd, yes = 1, rv;
	struct addrinfo hints, *servinfo, *p;
	
	memset(&hints, 0, sizeof hints);
	hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;
	/*hints.ai_family = AF_INET;*/
	hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
  hints.ai_protocol = IPPROTO_TCP;
	hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE;
	
  snprintf(mport, MIL, "%d", port);
	if ((rv = getaddrinfo(NULL, mport, &hints, &servinfo)) != 0)
	{
        fprintf(stderr, "getaddrinfo: %s\n", gai_strerror(rv));
        return 1;
    }
	
	for(p = servinfo; p != NULL; p = p->ai_next)
	{
		if((sockfd = socket(p->ai_family, p->ai_socktype, p->ai_protocol)) == -1)
		{
			perror("Init_socket: socket" );
			continue;
		}
		
		if (setsockopt(sockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &yes, sizeof(int)) == -1)
		{
            perror("Init_socket: SO_REUSEADDR" );
			close(sockfd);
            exit(1);
        }
		
#if defined(SO_DONTLINGER) && !defined(SYSV)
		{
			struct linger ld;
			ld.l_onoff=1;
			ld.l_linger=1000;
		
			if(setsockopt(sockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_DONTLINGER, (char *)&ld, sizeof(ld))< 0)
			{
				perror( "Init_socket: SO_DONTLINGER" );
				close(sockfd );
				exit( 1 );
			}
		}
#endif

		if (bind(sockfd, p->ai_addr, p->ai_addrlen) == -1)
		{
            perror("Init_socket: bind" );
			close(sockfd);
            continue;
        }
		break;
	}
	
	if (p == NULL)
	{
        fprintf(stderr, "server: failed to bind\n" );
        return 2;
    }
	
	freeaddrinfo(servinfo); // all done with this structure

    if (listen(sockfd, 3) == -1)
	{
        perror("Init_socket: listen" );
		close(sockfd);
        exit(1);
    }
	return sockfd;
}

Stumbled on this, thought it might provide some insight on the bind( ) problems. Have not had a chance to play around with it yet.

Binding Sockets to IPv4 and IPv6

Perhaps this is more helpful.

Anyone?

I'm going to take a crack at this stuff again as soon as I have time, looks like the link I mentioned might lead to a solution to our problems.

Could be, but I no longer have access to a server with IPv6 capabilities.

Also nice to see the cricket emote get some love