[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ server not listening to default AMQP port

Wed Aug 21 10:20:24 BST 2013

On 21/08/13 10:12, Emile Joubert wrote:
> The broker attempts to detect dual stacks during boot and starts network
> listeners accordingly. You should be able to access the broker via IPv4
> or IPv6 with a default config.

Just to expand on this: Linux (by default) treats IPv4 as a special case 
of IPv6, so by listening on all IPv6 addresses we are also listening on 
all IPv4 ones.

Other OSes can behave differently. For further reading, the comment at 
http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-server/file/69052cb42a4b/src/rabbit_networking.erl#l389 
might be interesting.

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, Pivotal