Subject: Re: Change request...
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: Audun Arnesen Nordal <audun@stud.cs.uit.no>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/16/2001 14:33:09
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 12:19:56PM +0100, Feico Dillema wrote:
> 
> > Or you could add IPv6 support at the same time (fairly easy, did it
> > once, but lost the patch), and point it by default to no.freedb.org
> > which is dual-stack ;-)
> 
> Hm. That sounds reasonable. Do you know where I might be able to find
> the patch for this? Or, I suppose I could just try to do it myself,
> although I'm not completely sure what changes are required to enable
> IPv6... Is it more or less just a matter of using gethostbyname2 instead
> of gethostbyname, roughly, and any changes directly driven by that?

I've found itojun's "Implementing AF-independent application", 

http://www.kame.net/newsletter/19980604/

useful in this respect.

Best regards,


-- 
Audun Nordal