> On 2 aug. 2016, at 15:19, CN47 <akrcz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm working on an API that should connect via IPv4 and Ipv6 to a server via
> UDP packets and send/receive information to/from that server.
>
> Please see the below example. This seems to work even though I've specified
> "udp" and not "udp6" (Both server and client address are local to a network)
>
> package main
>
> import (
> "fmt"
> "net"
> )
>
> func CheckError(err error) {
> if err != nil {
> fmt.Println("Error: " , err)
> }
> }
>
> func main() {
> ServerAddr,err :=
> net.ResolveUDPAddr("udp","[0:0:0:0:0:ffff:c0a8:cd36]:5400")
> CheckError(err)
>
> LocalAddr, err := net.ResolveUDPAddr("udp",
> "[0:0:0:0:0:ffff:c0a8:130]:5400")
> CheckError(err)
>
> Conn, err := net.DialUDP("udp", LocalAddr, ServerAddr)
> CheckError(err)
>
> defer Conn.Close()
> }
>
> However, once I replace those "udp" strings with "udp6" as indicated in the
> documentation, I get an error from the DialUDP() method "dial udp6
> 192.168.1.48:5400->192.168.205.54:5400: bind: can't assign requested address".
>
> For what it's worth, the code works if I replace those ipv6 strings with
> their ipv4 strings and use "udp4" instead of "udp".
>
> Can someone explain why udp6 doesn't seem to work?
Those are IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses, which is to say regular IPv4 addresses
expressed in IPv6 syntax for compatibility purposes. You are using an IPv4
connection, which is why "udp" and "udp4" work but "udp6" doesn't.
//jb
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