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Asked: 2013-03-19 04:47:28 +0800 CST

logstash trying to connect to redis server on mapped ipv6 address

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I've just started playing with logstash, and I'm having a problem getting a log shipper process to send events to a redis server on another host.

The output stanza of my logstash config file reads

output {
  redis { host => "11.22.33.44" data_type => "list" key => "logstash" }
}

However, when I run the logstash process, I get error messages containing

:exception=>#<SocketError: Network is unreachable>

A bit of straceing reveals that it's failing here:

connect(13, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(6379), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::ffff:11.22.33.44", &sin6_addr) = -1 ENETUNREACH (Network is unreachable)

i.e. it's trying to connect to the redis host on an ipv6-mapped ipv4 address. The host doesn't have a native ipv6 address and the connection fails.

How can I either get the process to use AF_INET instead of AF_INET6, or somehow configure my host to work around the problem?

In case it's relevant, my java version is

java version "1.6.0_18"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.8.13) (6b18-1.8.13-0+squeeze2)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)
java

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This is caused by this bug: the sysctl setting net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 breaks Java networking in Debian squeeze (and probably other platforms).

    The setting only seems to matter to people who want to distinguish ipv6 and ipv4 connections. I don't really care about this, so I did

    $ sudo sysctl -w net.ipv6.bindv6only=0

    started the logstash agent, and it worked!

    The creator of logstash kindly told me afterwards that you can also add -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true to the command line.

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