sockaddr_storage
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Jan 27 20:01:19 UTC 2017
Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com>:
> Yes, but NTP does not have to. NTP can just open an IPv6 socket and
> shove all IPv6 and IPv4 in through that socket. Apache does this,
> sendmail does this, nginx does this, postfix does this. Very standard
> and very easy.
That's interesting. Does this mean we could throw out all IPV4-specific code
and use IPV6 logic everywhere? I didn't think an IPv6 accept() would take
incoming IPv4 connections - is there a way to make it take both?
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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