Subject: Re: increasing UT_HOSTSIZE for IPv6?
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/23/1999 12:40:12
>	UT_HOSTSIZE (/usr/include/utmp.h) is set to 16.  This is not possible
>	to put IPv6 numeric address into ut_host[].
>	IPv6 numeric is usually fit into 40 bytes, in worst case 46 bytes
>	including "\0".  Worst case is like follows:
>		1111:2222:3333:4444:5555:123.123.123.123

should that not be

		1111:2222:3333:4444:5555:6666:123.123.123.123

after all...ipv6 uses a 128 bit address.

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