Re: IPv6 address/port format
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 02:06:52AM -0500, Chris P. Ross wrote:
>
> "Dwayne C . Litzenberger" <dlitz@cheerful.com> said:
> > I'm not really knowledgeable about this, but what is a good, standard way
> > to show address/port shown in IPv4, IPv6, IPX, etc? I would think
> > address.:port (dot-colon) would be good (and it already works with domain
> > names), but I haven't seen this done yet.
>
> > Any thoughts?
>
> I've seen people use both "IPv6-addr port" (space sep.) and
> "IPv6-addr/port". I think I really like using '/', and haven't yet
> found a place where that will cause problems except for in URIs.
> Using spaces is just universally compliated. I guess we could use
> something like '%', but then again, me randomly proposing things here
> is probabaly not the best place to make suggestions usefully. ;-)
There's an Draft from the IETF on IPv6 address and port notation for
URLs which specifies using square brackets like [IPv6 ADDRESS]:PORT.
I think this is now the preferred way to use in config files etc
too, just for uniformity.
Feico.
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