Subj : My turn for testing IPv6...
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Sun Aug 02 2015 18:28:31

Hello Michiel!

Sunday August 02 2015 23:16, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Andrew Leary:

 AL>> MBSE will use IPv6 first, and then fall back to IPv4 if
 AL>> necessary, assuming that the hostname has both A and AAAA
 AL>> records.  It is not currently possible to specify a literal IPv6
 AL>> address in the hostname field of a node record (I'm working on
 AL>> changing that.)

 MvdV> Good... ;-)

The code is done for mbsetup to allow entering a literal IPv6 address encased in square brackets.  Now I just need to modify the opentcp.c code so that it doesn't assume the first colon in the address is the beginning of a port specification.

 AL>> BinkD uses the OS default, unless you specify the -4 or -6
 AL>> switches on the node entry.

 MvdV> Binkd accepts a literal IPv6 address encased in square brackets in the
 MvdV> node entry.

That's what I figured.

Andrew

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