Russ Allbery writes:
Hector Santos <hsantos(_at_)santronics(_dot_)com> writes:
IPv4 and IPv6 are very different and software NEEDS to change in
order to even BEGIN to thinking about supporting it.
I have to pick this nit. The difficulty of supporting IPv6 in
userspace programs tends to be exaggerated. At least on UNIX
varients, programs that use the new getaddrinfo and getnameinfo
interfaces can frequently be written to be entirely agnostic about
which IP stacks they're using.
+1
We don't use those and still it was easy. The biggest chunks of code are
the ones to parse IPv6 addresses (e.g. in the config files) and to
print IPv6 addresses (e.g. for logging).
Arnt