[CentOS] IP6 Anyone?

Sat Feb 26 20:35:08 UTC 2011
Always Learning <centos at g7.u22.net>

On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 12:24 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:

> On 02/26/11 12:12 PM, Always Learning wrote:
> > Because : is sometimes used in an address to indicate the start of a
> > port number, example http://www.anyonejunk.com:1234, the IP6 address can
> > be enclosed within [ ] with the port number remaining outside the square
> > brackets.
> 
> Thats, MUST be enclosed within []...   without those [ ], how would you 
> resolve
> 
>      http://21DA:00D3::00FF:FE28:8080
> 
> is that...
>      http://[21DA:00D3:0000:0000:0000:00FF:FE28:8080]
> or
>      http://[21DA:00D3:0000:0000:0000:0000:00FF:FE28]:8080
> 
> ?  Both of those are valid IPv6 addresses
> 
> if anything, I'd put the blame on this squarely on the committee that 
> decided to use : as the IPv6 seperator when it was already in wide use 
> as the URL port separator.

What separator would you have chosen?

\ (used by M$)
/ (used for directories etc.)
: (used for port number)
. (used by IP4)
; (widely used as a terminator)
# ?
= ?
- ?
_ ?
! ?
" ?
< (used in HTML and email addresses)
> (used in HTML and email addresses)
, ?
^ ?
% ?
$ ?
~ ?

What would anyone have chosen ?

With best regards,

Paul.
England,
EU.