On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:45:20PM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > --On Thursday, August 14, 2003 23:43:23 +0100 "Colm MacCarthaigh,,," > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >good good, patch works so :) In which I'll now cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include > >the neccessary autoconf voodoo to fix OSX/Darwin. > > I'm not entirely sure the getnameinfo() patch is needed on current releases > of Darwin. Host-based authorization *seems* to work without it.
According to my darwin sources, it definitely fixes things for them, but is fixed with Jaguar I believe. > Can someone please verify this to make sure I'm not doing something wrong > or misunderstanding what the original problem was 10 months ago or whatnot? > > It's very possible this was fixed in a point release since last October. > If so, we can allow IPv6 on 10.2.6 and perhaps earlier versions if we can > get confirmation on those versions. And, we *could* also enable it on > known-getnameinfo()-broken releases with this patch in place. But, I'm not > really tempted to go that far. -- justin Well if it ever does worm it's way in, for the sake of ultra-paranioa it really needs a ntohl() in the RHS of the assignment. IPv6 stores everything in network-byte-order, IPv4 structures are stored locally as host. And you never know someone might just roll out Darwin on Sparc ;p~ -- Colm MacCárthaigh Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stdlib.net/
