Re: EMBA (Emacs Gitlab CI build server) is now *public* available

[Robert Pluim]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 05 Feb 2019 15:58:43 +0100 Robert Pluim <address@hidden> wrote: 
>
> RP> Iʼve pushed changes to the failing tests under the assumption that
> RP> either that host doesnʼt have IPv6 support in its headers, or it has
> RP> no IPv6 stack running, but since I donʼt have any hosts like that, Iʼm
> RP> guessing quite a bit.
>
> I think this is an artifact of running inside Docker. It does IPv4 by
> default. According to the docs we can give the default docker0 bridge a
> local IPv6 address or globally routable IPv6 addresses (which we also
> have to confirm with the FSF sysadmins). I'm not sure what's better in
> the context of building and testing Emacs?

All the emacs IPv6 tests connect to localhost only, so definitely no
need for a globally routable address. We could probably get away with
just "::1" working.

Robert