At 03:16 AM 15/01/2002 +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>Thomas Lussnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 1. Now if IPv6 enabled it only fetch IPv6 IPv4 sites faile
>
>This is a problem, and part of the reason why the patch is so simple
>in its current form.
[...]
>Another possibility is to store struct sockaddr_in instead of the
>address. This was proposed by a Japanese developer, and I disliked
>that idea because it seemed cleaner to store and pass only the
>information we actually need. But perhaps this would be easier all
>around, I don't know.
Reading back, that was itojun's proposal, and I suspect probably a good
choice, even if it seems less clean. Itojun is one of the leading lights in
IPv6 development, along with the whole WIDE group in Japan, and heavily
involved in the v6 stacks for the *BSD family (Kame) and now moving into
Linux (Usagi?). They're busy converting everything useful to support v6 (in
a v6-only version, or in parallel to v4). If they recommend that approach
it's probably for a good cause. <disclaimer>I'm not a serious programmer
and defer to those who are :-) </disclaimer>
Cheers,
Markus
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