On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Mouse wrote:
-4 Use IPv4 only, whether IPv6 is available or not -6 Use both IPv4 and IPv6 if IPv6 is available; silently use IPv4 only if IPv6 is not available (default)Any objections or comments?For what it may be worth, this is not what I'd naïvely expect -4 and -6 to mean. What I'd expect is -4 Use v4 only, error if unavailable. -6 Use v6 only, error if unavailable. neither Use both, silently dropping whatever's unavailable. both Use both, error if either unavailable.
Agree, but I was following existing prior art in the way that nfsd uses -4 and -6
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