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Re: RFC: p6.arpa vs. ip6.int

From: Ben Collins <bcollins at debian dot org>
To: Mark Brown <bmark at us dot ibm dot com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 11:50:27 -0500
Subject: Re: RFC: p6.arpa vs. ip6.int
References: <20020204145954.GL1278@blimpo.internal.net> <B3B8176A-198B-11D6-987A-0030657603C6@us.ibm.com>

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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References:
- RFC: p6.arpa vs. ip6.int
  - From: Ben Collins
- Re: RFC: p6.arpa vs. ip6.int
  - From: Mark Brown

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