Re: broken IPv6 code
In article <84pui52mqh.fsf@snoopy.apana.org.au> (at 03 Jan 2001 17:06:30 +1100), Brian May <bam@debian.org> says:
> I similar issue is if you run a daemon and another program is already
> listening for incoming connections on that port (whether IPv4 or IPv6
> or whatever), then both daemons will happily run, but only one will
> accept incoming connections.
I don't understand.
Are you talking about IPv6 and IPv6 case, or IPv4 and IPv4 case?
> IPv6 should be treated as a unique protocol, just like any other
> protocol supported by the sockets API. If this is not possible for
> reasons I don't understand, then the API should be changed so that
> applications can be protocol independent (eg. getaddrinfo shouldn't
> return IPv4 addresses in this case).
KAME and USAGI should and will clarify these issues and solutions...
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