Session Checks and IPv6 Privacy Extensions

[Paul Timmins]

On 08/09/2011 11:15 AM, Gert Doering wrote:
>
>> 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.
>    
I'd have to say it was every 30 minutes or so.
> Maybe OTRS chokes on IPv6 addresses?
>    
Nope. Works fine once I set it not to bind the sessions to their IP address.
> (As I said be fore, tieing session handling to IP addresses was already
> a bad idea in the last century...)
>    
Tell me about it. It was one of a million defaults that software has 
that I'm still pawing my way through as I find things that generate 
sadness and dismay, and resolve them.

-Paul