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RE: IPv6
From: |
Michal Svec |
Subject: |
RE: IPv6 |
Date: |
Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:57:03 +0200 (CEST) |
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Frederic Brehm wrote:
> >My question was about IPv6 support in CVS. If anybody is working on it, or
> >if it is even included in some devel release. If not, it was just a hint
> >for those, who want to enhance CVS to be up to date with the next
> >generation internet technology ;-)
> >
> >Details how to adapt existing apps to be ipv6-aware can be found eg. here:
> >http://www.kame.net/newsletter/19980604/
>
> The web site contains a section:
>
> 2. use getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() everywhere.
>
> getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() are new address independent
> variant that hides every gory detail in name-to-address
> translation, or vice versa.
>
> So I guess that the next generation Internet technology contains the
> notion of host names. The cvs command would use the hostname in
>
> cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden/some/path/cvsroot co module
>
> Does CVS have to be modified to use one of those two ipv6 functions?
IMHO yes.
M.