On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, david peahi wrote:
On the practical side: Have all programmers created a 128 bit field to
store the IPv6 address, where IPv4 programs use a 32 bit field to store
the IP address? This would seem to be similar to the year 2000 case
where almost all programs required auditing to see if they took into
account dates after 1999.
The new APIs have been around since about that time ~2000.
<http://www.kutukupret.com/2009/09/28/gethostbyname-vs-getaddrinfo/>
<http://udrepper.livejournal.com/16116.html>
... but a few. I am sure there is a lot of new and old code using the old
APIs. I wish there would be a WARN or equivalent in the APIs to tell the
devs that they're using a old (should be deprecated :P) API call.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swm...@swm.pp.se
