Danny, For record, I lit up a couple of Vistae here and they immediately found each other with IPv6.
Dave Danny Mayer wrote: > Rick Jones wrote: > >>>Windows doesn't support it until Vista (but then I'm only adding >>>transport support for IPv6 for Windows now)! And you will see this with >>>older platforms. We had to emulate getaddrinfo() for older platforms. >> >>Sounds like stuffing those checks into the emulation of getaddrinfo() >>and then supporting AI_ADDRINFO to the main code would be a good thing - >>that way when someone uses the ntp code as an example they will be >>seeing goodness :) > > > You're right about that except that the getaddrinfo() emulation code > will never support IPv6. getaddrinfo() was designed to support both IPv4 > and IPv6 but if you don't have the function in your library on your > system it's reasonable to only assume IPv4. If you look carefully, it > basically translates into a gethostbyname() wich can only handle IPv4 > anyway. So why bother? > > On the other hand adding it into the code to force the real code to > check if possible would be useful since people have systems set up that > can support IPv6 but didn't set up the infrastructure on the machine so > there are no IPv6 interface addresses but it can retrieve an IPv6 > address as a result of the lookup. > > >>>Are you looking at doing performance testing for NTP like you've done >>>for BIND? >> >>Hadn't really thought about it - didn't think that NTP had performance >>issues. I suppose if folks think it important something could be added >>to netperf4 (which I cannot recall if it uses AI_ADDRCONFIG or not :) >> > > > I know of no performance issues with NTP even when I try and bang it > hard for testing purposes. > > >>http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf4/trunk >> >>althought there is also the place where I'm trying to "GObjectify" things: >> >>http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf4/branches/gobject_migration >> >>rick jones >>BTW, since I'm not subscribed to [email protected] those folks >>only see stuff in the replies :) >> > > > We have a two-way gateway between questions and cptn so everyone sees > everything... > > Danny > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
