Hi,
A couple of questions...
1. Does fcl-db code support connecting to databases (any DB servers)
listening to IPv6 connections?
2. Does anybody know how to tell Firebird RDBMS to listen to IPv6
connections? From the 'netstat -a' output I can see that
my Firebird server is only listening to IPv4 tcp connections.
An fcl-db IPv4 connection string to Firebird is in the format
"<ip_address>:</path/to/database>" and this results to real connection
string looking as follows:
'192.168.0.20:E:\Databases\Test.fdb' (Windows)
or
'192.168.0.20:/data/devel/databases/test.fdb' (Unix)
My concern is that IPv6 address use the : (colon) symbol, but it seems
even with IPv4 connections under Windows, it doesn't mind the extra
colon in the connection string (the colon after the drive letter). So
what would fcl-db's connection string look like to a IPv6 database?
Apache Web Server changes the syntax for IPv6 connections to
[<ipv6_address>]:<port>
where the [ and ] are literal characters. This makes we wonder if fcl-db
with Firebird, and possible other database server follow a similar
pattern (I don't know if it is a well known standard - what Apache does)
- wrapping IPv6 address with brackets. So a Firebird IPv6 connection
could possible look as follows:
'[2a02:c7f:143d:8400:cceb:e8:5338:9797]:/path/to/database/test.fdb'
or
'[2a02:c7f:143d:8400:cceb:e8:5338:9797]:E:\dbpath\test.fdb'
Regards,
Graeme
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