Subj : IPv6 Nodes in Fidonet.
To   : Kees van Eeten
From : Andre Grueneberg
Date : Sat Jan 26 2013 20:33:32

Hi Kees

Kees van Eeten schrieb:

 AG>> *phew* I was almost afraid, I wouldn't make it for some unknown
 AG>> reason. ;)
 AG>> Are you going to contact the others to check their systems?
 KvE>  Well there were four more systems that used a Binkd.1.0....
 KvE> version.  I think the version change to 1.0 was because of the
 KvE> IPv6 functionality.  If not, then it would be interesting to know
 KvE> in what subversion or build,  IPv6 was intruduced.

I introduced IPv6 in binkd 1.0a-563 and the following commits ... see HISTORY file.
Binkd got a 1.0 a while later, around June last year.

 KvE>  I can imagine case where outgoing connections will work, but
 KvE> incoming  connections have a problem.

Of course -- I can also imagine situations where the OS prefers IPv4 over IPv6. At least my system is dual stack and some OSs have tuned their getaddrinfo() for different strategies.

CU Andre               E-Mail: andre@grueneberg.de 
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