Brian Utterback <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/19/2013 12:33 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
> > Later, when interfaces started getting auto-configured, local > > scope IPv6 addresses, there was a call to change that to be "don't > > return IPv6 addresses unless there is a better-than-local-scope > > IPv6 address assigned." Started causing me all manner of pain in > > netperf :( Not sure where that stands now in the Linux world. > > > > rick jones > Yes, that was the issue. Further complicating it was what do you > return if you have no IPv6 interfaces and you set AI_ADDRCONFIG and > you pass in a literal IPv6 address. The problem is that getaddrinfo > replaces both gethostbyname and inet_aton, each of which you might > expect to have different results in that case. We had people citing > two RFC's and the ipng working group mailing list. Great fun. That passing-in a literal IPv6 address is precisely where I first started noticing problems with netperf. For ages (in Internet Time at least) it "just worked" even when all I had were local-scope (link-scope?) IPv6 addresses configured. Then someone made a libc change and life became Quite Unpleasant (tm). rick jones -- I don't interest myself in "why." I think more often in terms of "when," sometimes "where;" always "how much." - Joubert these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... :) feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
