Re: Software and IPv6
Re: Software and IPv6
- Subject: Re: Software and IPv6
- From: André-John Mas <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 21:45:08 -0400
On 7-Jun-06, at 19:22 , Ragnar Sundblad wrote:
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).
I'd rather not have to deal with having to enter an IPv6 'numeric'
address, but I
would also like proper support for cases where it is a last hope
option. At the
moment it is an easy test to see how well a program supports IPv6,
since if I
provide a hostname chances are the IPv4 address will be used.
Please file a bug at
<https://bugreport.apple.com>
or those issues will be there even longer.
Done, issue is now 4578058.
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)).
I haven't really payed attention to what Bonjour is doing behind the
scenes,
but using Bonjour Browser (http://www.tildesoft.com) I can confirm this.
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