[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NET-405?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13182611#comment-13182611
]
Mickaël Tricot commented on NET-405:
------------------------------------
Some weeks ago, I had to write an IP filter which would work with both IPv4 and
IPv6 addresses. I needed to register some IP addresses and IP ranges in CIDR
format, then to check if a given IP matches one of those. I would have needed
these methods to work with IPv6:
- SubnetUtils(String cidrNotation)
- SubnetUtils.SubnetInfo#isInRange(String address)
Instead, I used the IpAddressMatcher from Spring Security
(http://static.springsource.org/spring-security/site/docs/3.1.x/apidocs/org/springframework/security/web/util/IpAddressMatcher.html).
> Support for IPv6 in SubnetUtils
> -------------------------------
>
> Key: NET-405
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NET-405
> Project: Commons Net
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Marc Lefrancois
>
> Currently, we cannot use org.apache.commons.net.util.SubnetUtils with IPv6
> addresses. This class will become less and less useful as more internet
> device are only assigned IPv6 addresses since all available IPv4 address
> blocks have now been attributed.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
