Unable to bind to IPv4. Host => 0.0.0.0 is bound to [::]
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Jordan Sissel January 11, 2013 at 5:54 PM
Forgetting netstat for the moment, if you telnet to localhost over ipv4 on that port, does it work?
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Created January 11, 2013 at 12:30 PM
Updated March 25, 2015 at 5:30 AM
When specifying syslog server like so:
tcp {
port => 5000
type => syslog
}
> netstat -napt | grep -i 5000
tcp6 0 0 :::5000 :::* LISTEN 9982/java
According to documentation at http://logstash.net/docs/1.1.8/inputs/tcp#setting_host default host is 0.0.0.0 which should translate to IPv4, unlike :: which is the IPv6 equivalent
In short, using config:
tcp {
port => 5000
type => syslog
host => "0.0.0.0"
}
and
tcp {
port => 5000
type => syslog
host => "::"
}
Yields the very same IPv6 bind result.
What's even more strange is when attempting to specify 10.0.0.100:
tcp6 0 0 10.0.0.100:5000 :::* LISTEN 10472/java
tcp6??
Tested on Ubuntu 12.04 running java version "1.6.0_24"
What I'm after is a way to bind to all addresses (IPv4 and IPv6), both on loopback, and network interface.
Please correct me if I'm reading netstat wrong though