Don't use AI_ADDRCONFIG at all for setting up a listening socket, since it

only seems to cause problems when other programs don't use it. I hope this
won't introduce new other problems..

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bitlbee.c b/bitlbee.c
index d53bfe71..0e1415e8 100644
--- a/bitlbee.c
+++ b/bitlbee.c
@@ -86,7 +86,11 @@ int bitlbee_daemon_init()
 	hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
 	hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE
 #ifdef AI_ADDRCONFIG
-	               | AI_ADDRCONFIG
+	/* Disabled as it may be doing more harm than good: this flag
+	   ignores IPv6 addresses on lo (which seems reasonable), but
+	   the result is that some clients (including irssi) try to
+	   connect to ::1 and fail.
+	               | AI_ADDRCONFIG */
 #endif
 	;