[vBulletin 3.5-3.7] ipv6-support

[Tornevall]

A couple of years seem to have gone since this question was up, and now I wondered if it was possible to make ipv6-resolving work better. I noticed that the host-field in sessions was limited to 15 chars so I tried to change this to 64 to see if that gave me support for ipv6.

This is a solution that might work:

Edit includes/class_core.php

change:
define('SESSION_HOST', substr($registry->ipaddress, 0, 15));


to:
define('SESSION_HOST', substr($registry->ipaddress, 0, 64));



For vBulletin 4 it is:

define('SESSION_HOST', substr(IPADDRESS, 0, 15));

... that should be changed to ...


define('SESSION_HOST', substr(IPADDRESS, 0, 64));



I also changed the length of the host-field in the session-table from 15 to 64. After this, resolving my ipv6-ip in "who's online" worked.


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