[ixpmanager] PTR for IPV6

[Barry O'Donovan]

Jeremy,

Thanks for the detailed and thorough follow up.

This should all be resolved via the following which will form part of 
the next release:

https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/commit/1f63d5861a91be81dee90c0148830dac0c5cd215?w=1


  - Barry


On 23/04/2014 18:40, Jeremy Lebo wrote:
> I was able to resolve the issue, and I can confirm that the problem was
> being caused by the trailing space on the IPv6 address.  In order to
> actually get rid of the space I ended up editing the IP address in MySQL
> rather than going through the IXP UI.  Once I deleted the space from
> that field in MySQL I was able to run the command without getting the
> error message.  I can tell you when I was deleting and re-entering
> information via the web interface I did not use any information in a
> drop-down box, I typed in the full address manually and carefully
> checked it before I saved the changes.  As an experiment, I created a
> new IPv6 address with a trailing space and verified I could not delete
> it.  I tried deleting the interface it was assigned to, and also
> assigning it to a different customer, each time typing it in without the
> trailing space, but no matter what I do, if a customer tries to use that
> IP address after it's entered incorrectly, it always defaults back to
> the version with the trailing space until you either edit it or delete
> it within MySQL.  This appears to only be the case with a trailing space
> - other changes I made to intentionally screw up an address can be
> changed back within the UI.  I can place a space in the middle of an
> address and it will generate the Bad Format error, but I am able to
> remove that space successfully without having to go into MySQL.  I can
> also type garbage characters in the middle of an address and remove them.
>
> -Jeremy
>
>
> On 4/23/2014 2:24 AM, Barry O'Donovan wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 22/04/2014 20:01, Jeremy Lebo wrote:
>>> Ok, tried making the edit you suggested to the IPv6.php file, and
>>> after changing line 97 we went from the error message "ERROR: Bad
>>> IPv6 format" to "ERROR: Bad IPv6 format: 2607:f8b8:fff1:6566::11"
>>
>> For the life of me I cannot reproduce this error. Can you open a ticket
>> on Github with specific step by step instructions to reproduce (assume I
>> know nothing).
>>
>>> so we looked at the specific customer with that IPv6 address.  While
>>>  looking at the customer with that IP address I realized that there
>>> was a trailing space on the end of the IPv6 address entered in their
>>>  VLAN interface.
>>
>> Right, I've added trim filters but, with and without a space, I could
>> still not reproduce.
>>
>>> I tried to entirely disable IPv6 on their interface by unchecking
>>> "IPv6 Enabled" and saving the changes but the IPv6 address still
>>> showed up on their interface and the same error was generated.
>>
>> Checking this box just sets the database field for ipv6enabled. Hiding
>> and showing the v6 details is just UI sugar. It's actually useful that
>> we keep the v6 settings even if v6 is disabled.
>>
>>> I then deleted their VLAN interface entirely and at that point the
>>> script ran, but when I tried to re-create their VLAN interface that
>>> trailing space was again placed on the end of their IPv6 address
>>
>> Ah yes - this is because this field works in two ways:
>>
>> 1) shows available v6 addresses from the database (i.e I suspect it
>> was not your browser auto-filling the v6 address but it was already
>> available in the dropdown). Delete the database entry via the IP
>> Addressing option in the left hand menu.
>>
>> 2) if you enter an address that is not in the database, the field will
>> store it in the database for the selected VLAN.
>>
>>
>>  - Barry
>>
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Barry O'Donovan
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