Discourse binding to IPv6...but not IPv4

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I successfully installed Discourse on my server, and it’s accessible over ipv6, but not ipv4.

Ideally I’d like it to listen on both 6 and 4. This is what netstat presents.

netstat -tunpl
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1098/sshd
tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN      28176/docker-proxy
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN      1098/sshd
tcp6       0      0 :::443                  :::*                    LISTEN      28164/docker-proxy
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:68              0.0.0.0:*                           990/dhclient

Any help is appreciated.

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Have you changed the sysctl net.ipv6.bindv6only from it’s default? Because if not, that IPv6 listening socket is also accepting IPv4 connections. Your problem, then, lies elsewhere – likely in firewall settings. Note, also, that by default docker will use iptables to redirect incoming connections, and those docker-proxy processes will not actually receive any connections, so it’s the listening sockets inside the container that will be receiving the connections.

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Ah kay. That makes sense now. I ended up getting it working with that knowledge. Thanks!

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Would you care to share your findings, in case someone has a similar problem in the future and stumbles across this topic?

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I just setup DNS for it. Apparently Discourse acts as a Virtual Host (like Apache). Once I setup DNS, it all worked smoothly over 4 and 6.