IPv4/IPv6 in OSS [Was: Re: increase datasize resource limit]

[Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai%in-nomine.org@localhost>]

-On [20050811 06:47], Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai (asmodai%in-nomine.org@localhost) 
wrote:
>That should not be a solution.  That's only about IPv4 endpoints being
>addressable through IPv6 addresses (::127.0.0.1, the 0 setting means you
>reenabled them, this is RFC compliant, but security-wise an issue).
>
>Why do I get the feeling a lot of OSS projects have little clue how to
>properly write applications that use IPv4/IPv6.

Just to make sure my knowledge is not missing anything, the only way to
properly get about this is, as most people think:

You support IPv4 binding, IPv6 binding, and a dual binding on IPv6 where
IPv4 gets mapped to IPv6.  The IPv4-mapped-in-IPv6 issue is a controversial
one (see amongst other things Metz & Itojun-san's
draft-itojun-v6ops-v4mapped-harmful as submitted to the IETF).

So why don't most applications just support -4, -6 flags to specify only
IPv4 or IPv6 and bind to both otherwise (and I am not meaning the mapped
idea)?

Or have I lost my marbles somewhere?

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