[ntp:questions] ntpd IPv6 support on Windows?

David J Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.neither-this-bit.nor-this.co.uk
Mon Jan 12 11:08:24 UTC 2009


Martin Burnicki wrote:
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> Here are a few thoughts:
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> 5.) Finally, in order to be able to distribute a single binary which
> can be run on Windows with or without support for IPv6 the program
> fully needs to check at runtime whether IPv6 support is available, or
> not. I.e. it first has to try to import getaddrinfo() and friends
> from the OS, then call those functions in order to check whether IPv6
> is supported. The current code already does the check but makes many
> assumptions just depending on the compiler version instead of
> checking whether some declarations are available after the header
> files have been imported.
>
> Martin

Martin,

(5) is the standard way of doing things - a single binary for all - and 
the way I would expect NTP to be made available.

Cheers,
David 




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