[Pkg-samba-maint] DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4548] IPv6 requires support for Link Local addresses

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4548





------- Comment #12 from david.holder at erion.co.uk  2009-04-04 06:46 CST -------
(In reply to comment #8)
> I take it that this ipv6-literal.net convention is microsoft-only and isn't
> handled by getaddrinfo() automatically. Correct?
True. I have been thinking that it would be better to handle this as an NSS
module.

> So we'd have to open-code an implementation of this ourselves. There's also a
> problem with that scheme. According to wikipedia:
> "If the IPv6 address contains a zone index, it is appended to the address
> portion after an 's' character:"
>     fe80--1s4.ipv6-literal.net.
> ...the problem is that our scopeid's are interface names. How do we distinguish
> an "s" in an interface name from the "s" delimiter that microsoft uses here?
> Thoughts?
This is handled by always writing the scope_id as an integer rather than using
its name.


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