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I would only comment that a LOT has changed since that article you reference was written 10 years ago! In the conclusion to that 2002 article, djb writes: ---
by danyork 14y ago
I would only comment that a LOT has changed since that article you reference was written 10 years ago! In the conclusion to that 2002 article, djb writes:
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The way to make IPv6 addresses work is to teach every Internet computer how to talk to IPv6 addresses---not just as an option that the sysadmin might configure, but as something that's automatically enabled as part of regular software/hardware upgrades.
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Today, most all operating system do speak IPv6 - and in many cases it is enabled by default. And there are plenty of IPv6-to-IPv4 gateways and other technologies so that you can, in fact, have an IPv6 network with access to IPv4 resources. We've come a LONG way. We still have a good way to go, but we're in a much better place than we were 10 years ago.
- tptacek 14y agoThe most painful problem I see is sockaddr_in; a lot of socket code is written to assume that an IP address is a scalar integer.