IPv6 Configuration - Windows

["Stusynski, Dan" <dstusynski@xxxxxxx>]

I built Apache 2.2.4 on Win XP sp2 from source and everything works fine except 1 thing.

 

In httpd.conf I have the following Listen directives:

Listen ipv4_address:88

Listen [ipv6_address]:88

 

After starting Apache, it appears to receive requests for both http://ipv4_address:88 and http://[ipv6_address]:88 (as expected).

 

However, if I put the generic listen addresses:

Listen 0.0.0.0:88

Listen [::]:88

 

The browser request never seems to reach Apache and never times out when browsing to http://hostname:88 or http://ipv4_address:88 or http://ipv6_address:88. The browser just seems to hang and the request never reaches Apache. After looking at the documentation this seems as if it should work, but doesn't.

 

The box I'm testing on doesn't have an IPv6 address that DNS will resolve but I have added that host/ip in my hosts file on my machine. Even still, I would have expected when explicitly typing in the IPv4 address it would have resolved as it did with the previous listen directives. Could this just be a name resolution issue I'm overlooking and that the generic addresses should work?

 

I've tried numerous other Listen directives such as using the host name or using the generic addresses that listen on seperate ports and every configuration seems to work.

 

Any thoughts are appreciated.

 

Dan Stusynski