Did anyone ever try to run a BOINC server in a clean IPv6 environment?

IPv4 addresses are used in a number of places in the server code, I 
suspect a couple of things going wrong when that info is missing or 
inconsistent.

Best,
Bernd


Rom Walton wrote:

> I just looked at libcurl's latest build files for Windows.  It appears like 
> we can now build it so that it'll support IPv6 with VS2005.  It also looks 
> like they upped their prereq to Winsock 2.x.
>
> After the initial release of 7.0.x we will have to give this another go.
>
> ----- Rom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicolás Alvarez
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 6:07 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: BOINC_DEV Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] IPV6 support?
>
> 2012/4/4, [email protected]<[email protected]>:
>> I seem to recall the IPV6 was added sometime in the past, and then
>> removed because of bugs in the library we are using.  What is the status of 
>> this?
>>
>> jm7
> BOINC doesn't have or need any support for IPv6 in project requests, that's 
> handled transparently by libcurl. The question is if the precompiled libcurl 
> we ship with the BOINC binaries for the various platforms has IPv6 enabled; I 
> vaguely remember it did differ between platforms.
>
> In the BOINC packages shipped by Linux distributions, which use the system's 
> libcurl, this is a non-issue.
>
> --
> Nicolás
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