> On 10. Nov 2018, at 02:07, Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost ("J. Hannken-Illjes") writes:
>
>> Why do we set this "Host is down" error on unconnected udp6 sockets?
>
> EHOSTDOWN is the result of a received "address unreachable" ICMPv6 packet,
> there is no corresponding IPv4 message.
Ok, but why do we deliver this error asynchronously to an
udp6 socket that is bound but not connected.
How should the server know which of the messages
it sent failed?
This behaviour looks quite useless ...
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J. Hannken-Illjes - hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost - TU Braunschweig
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