The default is IPv6 disabled (IPV4ONLY set to 1 by default).

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-Pieter

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Charles Remes <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2013, at 3:24 PM, Pieter Hintjens <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Steven McCoy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>  0mq supports IPv6 for unicast and multicast excepting RFC6555
>>> optimisations.  By default IPv6 is disabled and can be enabled per socket
>>> with ZMQ_IPV4ONLY.
>>
>> Would it not be more obvious to have an option ZMQ_IPV6 which we set
>> to 1 to enable IPv6?
>
> IMO, no. Most OSes have been shipping with IPv6 installed since 1999 and 
> enabled since 2003 (I just made those years up).
>
> I think it would be more surprising to people if they could see on the 
> command line that IPv6 was enabled but libzmq wasn't allow connections to 
> IPv6 endpoints. If they don't want the library to load that feature, they can 
> disable it.
>
> cr
>
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