Re: Wrap up and last call: sin6_scope_id semantics

[Erik Nordmark]

> Actually, since our (i.e. KAME/BSD's) getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo()
> use this mapping, all applications that use those two functions are
> affected, including ping, traceroute, ifconfig, netstat, route,
> telnet, ssh, ftp,...

I'm confused.
When you ship a new release that supports a link ids, site ids, etc
won't you also ship a getaddrinfo and getnameinfo which can handle those?

Thus I think the only concern should be for applications which
directly use if_nametoindex or if_indextoname for sin6_scope_id.

  Erik

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