site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On 7 jun 2006, at 01.40, Michael Bartosh wrote: On Jun 6, 2006, at 11:25 PM, Ragnar Sundblad wrote: Other than QA, are there any development issues that would prevent people from making their software IPv6 ready? Well, since there are so many programs out there that work perfectly well with ipv6, it is hard to think of any real show stoppers. I can think of two major examples. In certain circumstances, an IPv6 address can get embedded in a user's AuthAuthorty. In most cases, IPv6 is not actually routed by most of my customers (including a great many fortune 1000 companies), and if the Password Server is on another subnet, users can't authenticate. Ok, that sounds like an unfortunate bug, but that doesn't really have to do anything with preventing people from creating ipv6 ready software, has it? In Panther, ipfw didn't understand IPv6. So 6 connections could get around any firewall rules. That may be right, maybe the ipfw stuff lagged in ipv6 support. Well, since "firewalling" is the opposite of networking, it is maybe just natural that they don't follow. Just don't use that kind of destruction software and you will be a happy camper. Trend? There were two issues, were the first is a potential problem for everyone that could have working ipv4 but not v6 to their password server (which is in many, to not say the most, places on the internet) and therefore is an obvious bug, which you btw say is fixed now, and the other is just a single example of a piece of software that lagged ipv6 support, which incidentally is the kind of software that is made and used for destroying connectivity, not for supporting it. There are a zillion things that Just Work and does so well, on most OSes. Where did those go in that trend analysis? Well, I think it is very uncommon to turn it off, and those machines still work for people. I'd recommend not to turn it off. Maybe your turning it off is why you fell that it doesn't work? It does, just use it and hope to forget about it. /ragge _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Both of these are mostly fixed now, but this illustrates a trend of 6 not being taken into account by developers. So unless the networking personnel I'm working with are actually using 6 I always make sure it's turned off on the Mac. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com