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IPv6 address/port format
- Subject: IPv6 address/port format
- From: [email protected] (MARAY Tamas)
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:26:10 +0100 (MET)
- In-reply-to: <v0313031fb4a1458de4c6@[10.33.10.14]> from Edward Lewis at "Jan 11, 2000 03:42:14 pm"
> > How about this:
> > We still use / in the routing case and in the dir case. : and . should
> > still be used in IPv6 address format. But when we express port, we use []
> > to include the IPv6 addresses or even domain name, other syntax kept the
> > same as now.
> > for instance, the following are expressed in tranditional ways:
> > www.ipv6.net ---> 3ffe:1ce1:xxx:xxxx:xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx
> > 10.20.30.40 ---> (mapping IPv6) ::10.20.30.40
54.2
> > ::ffff:10.20.30.40
> > ::xxxx:xxxx
> > ::ffff:xxxx:xxxx
> > but for port 80 on www.ipv6.net,
> > use [www.ipv6.net]:80
> > [3ffe:1ce1:xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx]:80
> > and for urls: http://[..v6 address..]:port/dir/dir.....
>
> Seems the best solution to me, as a very new user of IPv6. It is the
> closest solution compared to IPv4 Syntax.
Wrong. Conflicts with the UNIX shell.
Tamas Maray
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