[170381] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Drake)
Wed Mar 26 23:12:57 2014
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:12:10 -0400
From: Robert Drake <rdrake@direcpath.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <0FD0EB52-8543-4F9B-8A65-9781FFC946F0@linkedin.com>
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On 3/26/2014 10:16 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
>
> and user@2001:db8::1.25 with user@192.0.2.1:25. Who had the good idea to use : for IPv6 addresses while this is the separator for the port in IPv4? A few MTA are confused by it.
At the network level the IPv6 address is just a big number. No
confusion there. At the plaintext level the naked IPv6 address should
be wrapped in square brackets.
From:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.2.2
