An odd IPv6 application issue

Francois Tigeot ftigeot at wolfpond.org
Sat Dec 11 23:07:02 CET 2010


On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 01:39:45PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> 
> Which is what I think I want.  If the destination is v6, open a v6 socket.
> If the destination is v4, open a v4 socket.  Don't open a v6 socket that
> uses mapped v4 addressing (that's just silly, in my opinion).

And also a security risk.

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Francois Tigeot



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