[erlang-questions] IPV6_V6ONLY

[Gé Weijers]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Per Hedeland wrote:

> Since one strong point of Erlang/OTP is to as far as possible isolate
> the Erlang programmer from these annoying differences between OSes,
> could it be considered to make inet_drv always apply IPV6_V6ONLY (if it
> exists) for IPv6 sockets?

One way to implement a protocol-agnostic client and server in C on a Posix 
system is to use the getaddrinfo() standard library routine, which 
produces a list of parameters that can be fed into socket() + bind() for 
servers, and socket() + connect() for clients. On the server size you may 
end up with multiple sockets to listen to.

getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() or simular routines seem to be missing 
from Erlang's resolver implementation. Any particular reason why?

Ge'  (utter Erlang newbie)

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