[RPKI] routinator - listening on all addresses

Martin Hoffmann martin at nlnetlabs.nl
Wed Jan 3 11:04:07 UTC 2024


Hi!

Robert Blayzor via RPKI wrote:
> Is there a way to have -rtr and -http services listen on all IP 
> addresses for both address families without explicitly listing every 
> single IP address in the configs or commandl ine?
> 
> There is documentation for "linux" that would listen on both
> addresses families/wildcard...
> 
> But documenation states all other OS's must be explicitly listed....
> 
> If you have a host with dozens of interfaces, listening on multiple 
> networks, this is kind of a drag. Is there an easier way to create 
> wildcard sockets on anything other than Linux?

I think on FreeBSD you just have to listen on the wildcard address for
each address family, i.e., for RTR:

| rtr-listen = [ "[::]:3323", "0.0.0.0:3323" ]

The note in the manual is there because this will fail on Linux where
[::] also convers v4.

  -- Martin


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