[158356] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Wed Nov 28 16:28:34 2012
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:28:16 -0800
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
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 11/28/2012 10:30 AM, 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.
>
Surely you mean varchar(15), right? :)
Mike
