RFC: p6.arpa vs. ip6.int

Mark Brown bmark@us.ibm.com
Mon Feb 4 08:50:00 GMT 2002


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.

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Mark S. Brown
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