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2011-10-19 21:58:07 +00:00
title: using ipv6 with inetd
2017-07-09 12:18:22 +00:00
date: 18 Oct 2011 10:58:00 +0200
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2011-10-19 21:58:07 +00:00
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I am the administrator of the [ctdo][] own jabber server over at `jabber.ctdo.de` .
It is currently running on the old but working [jabberd][] and also hosts a [bitlbee] server on several ports including ssl-protected ones.
Now that the world is migrating to IPv6 I wanted to make every single service on this machine available on IPv6, too.
Not that easy for old, never-really-updated software.
Complete taking down the machine and reinstalling everything was not an option, so I just updated jabberd to the latest version (back in spring).
By default the jabber server listens on all IPv6 addresses of the host machine, so all I needed to do here was enabling ssl-serving over IPv6 for it:
< tls port = "5223" > 2001:0db8:85a3:08d3:1319:8a2e:0370:7344< / tls >
{:lang="text"}
(this is a completeley random ipv6 addresses ;)
Now to the "hard" part: the bitlbee thing.
As bitlbee does not speak ssl itself, it makes use of [stunnel][], a small SSL tunneling proxy.
Now stunnel and bitlbee are not just started on boot, but handled by [inetd][], a super-server daemon listening on ports and starting associated programs on need.
But, as I told before, the server is a rather old installation and uses `netkit-inetd` , which, as to my testings, does not work over IPv6.
So I had to replace this one:
apt-get install netbsd-inetd
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One line in `/etc/inetd.conf` reads as the following:
9999 stream tcp nowait bitlbee /usr/bin/stunnel stunnel -v 0 -l /usr/sbin/bitlbee
{:lang="text"}
This needs to be duplicated and changed to listen on v6, too.
9999 stream tcp6 nowait bitlbee /usr/bin/stunnel stunnel -v 0 -l /usr/sbin/bitlbee
{:lang="text"}
And that's it.
/etc/init.d/netbsd-inetd start
/etc/init.d/jabberd14 restart
{:lang="text"}
and you should be ready to go.
This is live right now on `jabber.ctdo.de` .
[ctdo]: http://ctdo.de/
[jabberd]: http://jabberd.org/
[bitlbee]: http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html
[stunnel]: http://www.stunnel.org/
[inetd]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inetd
