Socket ipv6-only option

[Pierre Abbat]

I'm writing a program that sends UDP packets to another instance of the 
program. It now sends a test packet to all results of a resolver query. I run 
it on darner (DragonFly) and caracal (Linux) and tell them to send packets to 
each other. I see two differences between the two OSes:
*On darner, the resolver returns only the IPv6 address of caracal, though 
running host returns both. On caracal, it returns both addresses of darner.
*On darner, the socket comes up in IPv6-only mode. On caracal, it accepts IPv4 
packets (I checked this by telling caracal to send to caracal). Telling 
caracal to send to darner's IPv4 address results in no packets received.

I tried to clear the IPv6-only option; this causes an abort on both OSes. 
Stepping through it on DragonFly, I see that the error code returned from the 
setsockopt call is 2.

Attempting to declare separate sockets for IPv4 and IPv6 results in "Address 
already in use", at least in Linux.

Pierre
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