On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Bill Manning wrote: > Are the apps for which IPv6 is enabled that -can not- > use address literals?
There are a few. Mostly cauzed by lazy porting, and optimizing at the first stage for the masses only (ie., changing the API to use getaddrinfo, but if there are some internal address-manually-typed-is-ok checks, those may or may not be modified). > If so, then Steve is wrong and > the DNS has become critical infrastructure to the working > of the Internet. Otherwise, we should trapese down the > path of separation of topology locator from stack identifier. > > and then revisit the DNS to see if its best used as a lookup > service between these two things... :) -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
