Brian May wrote: > [1] I am not sure of the getaddrinfo API, but in my code the first > parameter is set to NULL. I assume this gets all the addresses of the > configured interfaces on the local machine, and doesn't need to do any > DNS lookups. This is correct. > [2] I assume if a program is smart enough to use getaddrinfo, it will > also be IPv6 compatable. Is this a safe assumption? Yes, it should be. You can have a look at my code I posted earlier on this list, It uses getaddrinfo to obtain a list of adresses to bind to and works (at least under Linux) perfectly well with IPv4 and IPv6. The only protocol-dependant code ist the check if the IPv4-bind() fails......
best greets, Rene
