[tor-bugs] #11360 [Tor]: Listen on IPv6 by default for SocksPort

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#11360: Listen on IPv6 by default for SocksPort
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     Reporter:  dgoulet      |      Owner:
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.???
    Component:  Tor          |    Version:
   Resolution:               |   Keywords:  tor-client
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Comment (by nickm):

 Ok. Will it be a problem that the address family that is used for the
 connection from the app to the socksport will not necessarily match the
 true address family of the destination address?  eg you can make a
 connection to www.example.com either over an AF_INET or an AF_INET6
 socksport, and you won't know whether it will go to an IPv4 or an IPv6
 address unless you know what the real address for www.example.com is.

 If that isn't a problem, this wouldn't be so hard to do.  I can't think of
 any showstopper issues, but of course changing the default configuration
 always poses some risk

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