[CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

David Sommerseth dazo at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Dec 8 08:45:16 UTC 2010


On 08/12/10 04:15, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 12/7/10 9:02 PM, Ryan Wagoner wrote:
>>
>>> Well in fact I don't think that will even work with the present URL
>>> rules. Just on a lark I clicked on your string, and my firefox
>>> interpreted it as http://3ffe:1900. Unless there's a special http
>>> protocol string for ipv6?
>>>
>>> Tony
>>
>> Since : is used to denote the port you must put the IPv6 address in brackets.
>>
>> http://[3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf]/
> 
> Thunderbird doesn't make that a clickable link.  Since the change to ipv6 is 
> pretty much inevitable and probably most things will eventually work out, maybe 
> we should focus on the little things (like programs not recognizing the 
> addresses in various contexts) that are going to cause pain during the transition.

Did you file a bug to the Thunderbird bugzilla regarding this?






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