Re: [GLOBAL-V6] IPV4 to IPv6 migration

[Gert Doering <gert@space.net>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 04:54:34PM -0400, Alain Durand wrote:
> On 6/3/08 4:46 PM, "Gert Doering" <gert@space.net> wrote:
> 
> > Long-lived applications doing an explicit bind() to addresses will need
> > to be notified - that's true.
> 
> That means most things listening to a socket...

No.  There's nothing wrong with bind() ing to INADDR_ANY - for the TCP
case, there is no strong reason for using an explicit address for the
bind().

As I already said, for UDP it's different, but the most prominent case
(bind, the program) handles the case of changing interface addresses
perfectly well already.

Gert Doering
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