IPv6, what is this brand new technology? :-P Seriously, good point, it might prevail before I retire... OK, we keep the complicated code, not a big deal, it works...
Thanks, Eric On June 17, 2020 11:16:59 AM UTC, Frank Crawford <fr...@crawford.emu.id.au> wrote: >On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 08:15 +0200, Eric L. Zolf wrote: >> Hi, >... >> More details: if you backup to/from a remote site, the description is >> of >> the form `host::path` (e.g. `rdiff-backup /home >> myuser@myhost::/srv/backup/homebak`), and the current quoting allows >> to >> have the double colons (::) somewhere in the `host` or `path` part of >> the remote description. And the question is if anybody knows of a >> concrete use case for this possibility? > >One case that may be used is if you create a file or directory based on >an IPv6 address, similar to what is sometime done in syslog or other >network logging programs that log to a file/directory based on the >hostname, but if it doesn't have a reverse entry. > >Regards >Frank
