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| 14 | <H1>AW: [IRCServices] ircservices and support for/of IPv6</H1> | |
| 15 | <B>Ian R. Justman</B> | |
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| 17 | TITLE="AW: [IRCServices] ircservices and support for/of IPv6">ianj at esper.net | |
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| 19 | <I>Tue Mar 11 09:49:50 PST 2003</I> | |
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| 34 | <PRE> | |
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| 36 | Yusuf Iskenderoglu wrote: | |
| 37 | ><i> The answer to this question is simple. | |
| 38 | </I>><i> Services could have had used char arrays of fixed sizes to store | |
| 39 | </I>><i> hostnames, which could be too small for ipv6 addresses. | |
| 40 | </I>><i> | |
| 41 | </I>><i> Look at the definition of HOSTIPLEN in several ircds, those, | |
| 42 | </I>><i> which support IPv6 have HOSTIPLEn=53, those who do not have it set | |
| 43 | </I>><i> to 15. | |
| 44 | </I> | |
| 45 | I'm going to move what I wrote in my previous e-mail here: | |
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| 47 | >>Mainly because Services does not do any DNS resolution (would | |
| 48 | >>slow Services | |
| 49 | >>down something fierce; that's what the server's for), the address, | |
| 50 | >>regardless of type (name vs. IP) or IPv#, is always going to | |
| 51 | >>be a text field. | |
| 52 | ||
| 53 | Remember, Services already has enough on its plate where DNS will only | |
| 54 | add to the burden. that's why the server does its DNS lookup. | |
| 55 | ||
| 56 | The only time Services ever needs to give a damn about IPv6 is when it's | |
| 57 | connecting to its next-hop server. :) | |
| 58 | ||
| 59 | --Ian R. Justman, Co-Founder and Postmaster, The EsperNet IRC Network. | |
| 60 | ||
| 61 | ----- | |
| 62 | Ian R. Justman <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">ianj at esper.net</A> (Official | |
| 63 | EsperNet business) | |
| 64 | Co-Founder and Postmaster, The EsperNet IRC Network | |
| 65 | Server Administrator, chocobo.esper.net "IJ" on IRC | |
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| 67 | PGP/GPG keys available upon request, or from any PGP keyserver. | |
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