On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:36:18PM +0200, Markku Savela wrote: > There is no reason for application to care at all whether actual > connection is over IPv4 or IPv6.
There are plenty of reasons. Logging, resolving addresses, applying application-level access control, application-level virtual hosting, to name but a few. But ignoring this, there are platforms on which IPv4-mapped addresses will never work. So far it looks like there is a serious consolidation towards there being no platforms on which both IPv4-only and IPv6-only sockets won't work. -- Colm MacC�rthaigh Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
