Not entirely.

They SHOULD be agnostic, but programmers have been assuming that IP == IPv4 for so long that anything can happen when you try and put in addresses with :s in them.
As Skeeve points out, it's great to see that people are thinking about this and adding "IPv6 compliance" to regression tests.

Dean

Ian Batterbee wrote:

But wasn't there a big discussion at NZNOG about how applications shouldn't know anything (or care) about the underlying communication protocols being used ?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve@eintellego.net> wrote:

Hey all,

Just a bit of data for you network guys and application hosting guys out there... Filemaker Pro 10 which has just been released is saying that it "Complies with Internet Protocol Version 6 standards."

http://www.filemaker.com/products/fmp/all_features.html

Good to see mainstream applications adopting and promoting it.
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