Re: Software and IPv6
Re: Software and IPv6
- Subject: Re: Software and IPv6
- From: Ragnar Sundblad <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 01:22:15 +0200
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:21:11 -0400, Andr?-John Mas
<email@hidden> wrote:
I'll take another look at some of my common applications and see how
they
fair. I'll have to see how well they accept the numeric form, as
well as
the named form.
A few problem points I have come across:
- try to connect to smb://[::1] with the Finder. This does not give
the
normal error of trying to connect to local server.
- try to connect to ftp://[::1] with the Finder. This does not give
the
normal error of trying to connect to local server. The command
line
ftp client works with no issues.
- Finder accepts afp://[::1], but displays it as afp://::1/ in the
error
message.
- Safari no handling link local IPv6 address properly, for example:
http://[fe80::230:65ff:fed6:b164%en0]/ , yet I can access the
server with its IPv4 address: http://192.168.2.101/
- MacOS X's Network Utility can't handle IPv6, even for pings
- Panic's Transmit does not support IPv6 (have contacted developers)
I know most of these extend beyond Darwin into MacOS X, but since this
is the form in which most people use Darwin it is worth including. It
does show that even for a small handful of test cases IPv6 support
still
has issues.
Andre
Interesting findings, though I'd classify it as rather a address parsing
bug in Core Foundation or somewhere around that area.
It is funny that they have survived this long. One could hope that the
main reason for that is that people don't handle v6 addresses that much
(which they shouldn't have to and which is a little cumbersome).
Please file a bug at
<https://bugreport.apple.com>
or those issues will be there even longer.
As you noticed, most things do work, and they are used. For example many
services used with Bonjour prefer ipv6 when available, like afp
mounting between two machines on the local network, which means that
ipv6 is used daily by many (without them knowing (or caring)).
/ragge
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