Also, for example, the new Filemaker Pro 10 supports direct sending of email via SMTP servers. When you enter the IP address/domain name of the SMTP server, just like in XP in which the fields are separated, perhaps they want to support the correct storing/validation of what is entered. Unless we're expecting all applications to just have an unverified freeform field. -- Skeeve Stevens, CEO/Technical Director eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists skeeve(a)eintellego.net / www.eintellego.net Phone: 1300 753 383, Fax: (+612) 8572 9954 Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 / skype://skeeve -- NOC, NOC, who's there? Disclaimer: Limits of Liability and Disclaimer: This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain sensitive and private proprietary or legally privileged information. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. eintellego Pty Ltd and each legal entity in the Tefilah Pty Ltd group of companies reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorised to state them to be the views of any such entity. Any reference to costs, fee quotations, contractual transactions and variations to contract terms is subject to separate confirmation in writing signed by an authorised representative of eintellego. Whilst all efforts are made to safeguard inbound and outbound e-mails, we cannot guarantee that attachments are virus-free or compatible with your systems and do not accept any liability in respect of viruses or computer problems experienced.
-----Original Message----- From: Sam Sargeant [mailto:sam.sargeant(a)gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:56 PM To: Ian Batterbee Cc: NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] FileMaker Pro 10 - now with IPv6
On 12/02/2009, at 2:45 PM, 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 ?
That'd be nice in theory, however too many applications still expect a particular address family. They will only resolve A records, store an IP address in a 15 character field, or throw around v4 addresses on the wire.
Here's a document that started in 1998 about making Unix apps neutral when it comes to the AF. Over 10 years later and apps still make the same mistakes.
http://www.kame.net/newsletter/19980604/
Sam.
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