Hi, I know there has been some debate in the past over Net::LDAP and IPv6.
The problem I have is that Net::LDAP uses IO::Socket::INET6 for it's IPv6 handling which depends on Socket6. Socket6 has last been updated in 2008 and does not compile on Windows - see https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75211 Of course I do understand this is not per se to blame on Net::LDAP, but it means essentially that you can't use Net::LDAP to connect from Windows to LDAP servers via IPv6. I'd like to propose to use IO::Socket::IP (https://metacpan.org/release/IO-Socket-IP) which is "A drop-in replacement for IO::Socket::INET supporting both IPv4 and IPv6" - it will allow to simplify Net::LDAPs code possibly, and improve the IPv6 situation for Windows people. Of course this should not per se need to pose an extra dependency on Net::LDAP; in a similar way as today IO::Socket::INET6 is only loaded if it is present, we could do the same with IO::Socket::IP, and fall back to IPv4-only IO::Socket::INET. Please let me know any concerns or suggestions you might have to the above. -- Mike
