[stunnel-users] IPv4 and IPv6

Tue May 31 00:42:59 CEST 2016

Hi.

I have a following configuration for the outgoing connection
[XXX-1]
client = yes
accept = 127.0.0.1:1564
connect = some-server:9999
local = some-other-address

Sometimes, or rather, quite regular, the connection to localhost port
1564 results in immediate connection close and logging the following:
May 30 23:06:58 tom stunnel: LOG5[4]: Service [XXX-1] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:12848
May 30 23:06:58 tom stunnel: LOG3[4]: local_bind (ephemeral port): Invalid argument (22)

I traced the syscalls and see the following:
 28196 stunnel  CALL  socket(PF_INET6,SOCK_STREAM,IPPROTO_IP)
 28196 stunnel  RET   socket 10/0xa
 28196 stunnel  CALL  fcntl(0xa,F_GETFL,0)
 28196 stunnel  RET   fcntl 2
 28196 stunnel  CALL  fcntl(0xa,F_SETFL,0x6<O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK>)
 28196 stunnel  RET   fcntl 0
 28196 stunnel  CALL  fcntl(0xa,F_SETFD,FD_CLOEXEC)
 28196 stunnel  RET   fcntl 0
 28196 stunnel  CALL  bind(0xa,0x802808a6c,0x10)
 28196 stunnel  STRU  struct sockaddr { AF_INET, 176.36.249.139:0 }
 28196 stunnel  RET   bind -1 errno 22 Invalid argument

The socket was created with INET6 address family, but bind was done for
INET AF. Indeed, both some-server and some-other-address have both A and
AAAA records, corresponding addresses are configured and functional. OS
is FreeBSD, I was ensured that this combination (INET6 socket and INET
bind) is not correct.

It probably works sometime when first resolved addresses for names
happen to come from the same address family, but when resolvers return
different order, the situation above occurs. Disabling ipv6 support
makes the connection work reliably, which confirms my observations.

I am using stunnel 5.31.

Would be nice to have this fixed.  Thanks.