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From:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject:
Re: (unfinished) UPDATE: net/rtorrent, net/libtorrent
To:
"Anthony J. Bentley" <bentley@openbsd.org>, ports@openbsd.org, kn@openbsd.org
Date:
Sat, 9 Nov 2024 19:21:04 +0000

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On 2024/11/09 19:32, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> As discussed in the restaurant, the problem is that we do not support
> IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses, on purpose, for security concerns.
> Frankly at this point my personal opinion is that it's harming us more
> than protecting us.  Anyway...

It's certainly a big problem in certain parts of the ports tree.
Java is particularly badly afffected, it assumes that if you want
to use v6 you can do v4-mapped.