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Re: RFC: p6.arpa vs. ip6.int
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:24:46AM -0600, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> On Monday, February 4, 2002, at 08:59 AM, Ben Collins wrote:
> > The main complaint is that .arpa is not
> >widely in use yet, so the current glibc is useless for ipv6.
>
> AIX went with ip6.int as the default, for this very reason.
> .arpa will be supported, but we will allow for configuration
> to decide between the two.
Well I wish that glibc atleast worked with both. The code totally
neglects ip6.int.
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