[ntp:hackers] Why are we going down this road? Question on listen-on, query-on, -I

Brian Utterback brian.utterback at sun.com
Mon Jun 1 12:53:54 UTC 2009



Danny Mayer wrote:
> Dave Hart wrote:
>> I would love to see us binding one or two wildcard sockets and using
>> more modern socket APIs where possible, it isn't all or nothing.  I
>> know for example as of Vista apps can choose to open a dual-protocol
>> wildcard socket on Windows, previously separate sockets per protocol
>> were required.
> 
> We should never open a dual-protocol wildcard socket anywhere. This will
> cause lots of problems and is definitely a layering problem.

Danny is right about this. Dual IPv4 and IPv6 doesn't work in the 
general case. That's why I used two sockets in my example.

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