Re: [gnet-dev] IPv6

[marius aamodt eriksen <marius umich edu>]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 06:06:52PM +0100, zze-BROUCKAERT Xavier stagiaire FTRD/DMI/CAE wrote:

> I'd like to know if someone is already doing the IPv6 work on glib.
> What lacks to have complete IPv6 support ?
> I'd like to help but I'm far to being a guru...

as far as i know, this work hasn't been started yet.  theoretically,
it's just a matter of using different structures and such, but i believe
the goal is to actually make sure it works too (i.e. 6bone or so)

marius.

> For DNS lookups, do you think it's better to use gethostbyname2 or
> getaddrinfo ?
> I prefer getaddrinfo but it's buggy on Linux without USAGI...
> I don't know which one you used..

gethostbyname is used in gnet.

marius.

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