[IRCServices] ircservices and support for/of IPv6

openglx openglx at thedarkside.com.br
Thu Mar 13 13:02:42 PST 2003


Andrew Church wrote:
>      Services treats IP addresses the same way as hostnames, i.e. as
> variable-length strings; this includes SZlines, which only check for a
> wildcard match the same way as autokills.  The only place IPv4/IPv6 would
> make a difference is in protocol modules for protocols that supply IP
> addresses in the NICK/USER message; at the moment, the only supported
> protocol that does this is Bahamut, and Bahamut doesn't support sending
> IPv6 addresses, so the point is moot.

http://bahamut-inet6.sourceforge.net/

It's not one official support, but bahamut works on IPv6.

(PS: sorry for posting the same message twice but from different email)