[Pkg-erlang-devel] Support in Erlang, Yaws and ejabberd for IPv6?

[Anders Jackson]

2010/1/11 Sergei Golovan <sgolovan at gmail.com>:
> Hi!

Hi, thanks for the answer.

> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Anders Jackson
> <anders.jackson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I have tried to configure Yaws be able to handle request from the
>> servers IPv6-address.

> If I know correctly, Yaws doesn't have IPv6 support at all. Though
> id'd be better to ask upstream developers at
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/erlyaws-list

Upstream claims that there is support for IPv6 if Erlang have it.

>> So my questions to the list are
>> does Erlang have been compiled with support for IPv6?

> Yes, IPv6 is enabled in Erlang.

Thanks, then I have to continue my quest for the holy IPv6 :)

>> has Yaws support for IPv6 in Debian?

> No, Yaws doesn't have IPv6 support.

So,  the version of Yaws in Debian is to old or has removed support then?

>> has ejabberd any support for IPv6 in Debian?

> Please, ask ejabberd maintainer or upstream developers.

Ok, shall do that.

>> It should be important to Erlang, as next stable Debian should support IPv6,
>> and then Erlang (and all it's applications) have to support IPv6 too.
>> It would also be great if there are some examples of this in the documentation.

> AFAIK, IPv6 sockets in Erlang are very similar to IPv4. They differ
> only by inet6 option (and different length of IP tuple).

> Cheers!
> --
> Sergei Golovan

Thanks
/Anders J