Has there been resolution on this? I get this error now and then, too.

On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at 12:25:09 PM UTC-6, Jakob Borg wrote:
>
>
> On 2 aug. 2016, at 15:19, CN47 <akrc...@gmail.com <javascript:>> 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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