[158347] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Wed Nov 28 13:47:30 2012
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:47:06 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: david peahi <davidpeahi@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAE_aTPOMvoQVodp0FrMvyjX-35DPHXyqPvDkLAvApjCYmsvjEA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, david peahi wrote:
> On the practical side: Have all programmers created a 128 bit field to
> store the IPv6 address, where IPv4 programs use a 32 bit field to store
> the IP address? This would seem to be similar to the year 2000 case
> where almost all programs required auditing to see if they took into
> account dates after 1999.
The new APIs have been around since about that time ~2000.
<http://www.kutukupret.com/2009/09/28/gethostbyname-vs-getaddrinfo/>
<http://udrepper.livejournal.com/16116.html>
... but a few. I am sure there is a lot of new and old code using the old
APIs. I wish there would be a WARN or equivalent in the APIs to tell the
devs that they're using a old (should be deprecated :P) API call.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
