11 Feb
2009
11 Feb
'09
6:56 a.m.
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.