• Re: what does "::ffff" mean in netstat output?

    From Rayleen rios@21:1/5 to Pascal Hambourg on Fri Sep 16 17:42:06 2022
    On Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 5:50:21 AM UTC-6, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
    Hello,
    Rick Jones a ᅵcrit :
    Bennett Haselton <ben...@peacefire.org> wrote:
    When I run "netstat" on my machine I get some lines like:

    tcp 0 0 ::ffff:69.72.177.140:80 ::ffff:<remote ip
    address> TIME_WAIT

    ::ffff is the IPv6 prefix for an IPv4 address mapped into IPv6 space (something along those lines).
    And it means that it is an IPv6 socket that is used for IPv4
    communication. Application and socket-wise, it is IPv6 but network and packet-wise it is IPv4. This is allowed as a transition mechanism if net.ipv6.bindv6only=0 and the application didn't set the socket option IPV6_V6ONLY.
    It seems that some recent OSes disable this option by default so that
    IPv6 sockets can handle only real IPv6 communications.
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