Session Checks and IPv6 Privacy Extensions

[Tore Anderson]

* Gert Doering

> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 09:49:46AM -0400, Paul Timmins wrote:
>> On 08/09/2011 03:57 AM, Jens Weibler wrote:
>>> with the release of Lion it appears that the usage of temporary 
>>> adresses has been enabled..
>>> Anyone else got problems with sessions checks in Typo3 or OTRS?
>>
>> It took me a while to figure out why OTRS was logging me out all the 
>> time, 
> 
> "all the time" is a bit suspicious, tho.  Normally, privacy addresses
> should only be changed every few hours (haven't checked on lion), so 
> this should not happen too often.
> 
> Maybe OTRS chokes on IPv6 addresses?

My guess is that the Lion host in question is not alternating between
different IPv6 [privacy|temporary] source addresses, but between IPv4
and IPv6 (due to HE).

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Tore Anderson
Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com