[OpenSIPS-Users] How to ensure current IPV6 listening address

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu bogdan at opensips.org
Thu Oct 20 13:21:44 CEST 2016


Hi Robert,

If you use in the listener definition the name of an interface, it 
should detect IPV6 too. Is this working ?

Regards,

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
OpenSIPS Founder and Developer
http://www.opensips-solutions.com

On 20.10.2016 00:35, Robert Dyck wrote:
> Thanks for your input. The second scenario doesn't appear to be an issue.
>
>   If opensips can detect the IPV4 address on an interface should it be only a
> minor enhancement to detect the IPV6 address?
>
> On October 19, 2016 11:09:50 PM Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> I see here two aspects:
>>
>> 1) how to determine the IP at OpenSIPS startup - you need to perform the
>> IPv6 detection in a pre-start script and feed it to OpenSIPS. That is
>> the way it should be
>>
>> 2) if the IP changes during runtime, there is nothing you can do rather
>> then restarting - OpenSIPS cannot change listeners during runtime.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
>> OpenSIPS Founder and Developer
>> http://www.opensips-solutions.com
>>
>> On 19.10.2016 19:14, Robert Dyck wrote:
>>> Using 1.10.5
>>> My ISP provides an IPV6 prefix which unfortunately is not static. My
>>> address does not change spontaneously but if the host is down for a
>>> significant time the address will change.
>>>
>>> I thought it would be simply solved by specifying a listening interface in
>>> the configuration file. Unfortunately that only picks up the IPV4
>>> address.
>>>
>>> I have a DDNS provider and I can specify a domain name in the
>>> configuration but my concern is that the address bound to the domain name
>>> may be stale at the moment that opensips comes up. Does opensips verify
>>> an address obtained through DNS?
>>>
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