"Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications"....

Tue Nov 27 23:48:20 UTC 2012

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>> I agree that some of it comes down to knowledge; most programmers
>> learn from experience and lets face it unless you go looking your
>> unlikely to run into IPv6 even as of yet. I believe as the ISP
>> implements IPv6 and companies get more demand on the customer facing
>> side of things it will pick up quickly.
> 
> Sure, using gethostbyname() is certainly easier to find code examples, but not impossible to find other examples.
> 

http://owend.corp.he.net/ipv6

Pretty much everything you need to know about taking your applications from mono-stack to dual-stack.

Includes an example application implemented in IPv4 only and ported to dual stack in C, PERL, and Python.

>> In our datacenters all our software is built with IPv6 addressing
>> supported but we have yet to build the logic stack as we are waiting
>> for the demand. It makes no sense to build all the support just
>> because when there are other important things to do.
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> There is something else.  Many people "cheated" and stuck a 2^32 number in an integer datatype for their SQL or other servers.  They don't work as well with 2^128 sized IPs.  They have to undertake the actual effort of storing their data in a proper datatype instead of cheating.  I've seen this over-and-over and likely is a significant impediment just as the gethostbyname vs getaddrinfo() system call translations may be.
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It's actually pretty easy to change the datatype in an SQL database, so that shouldn't be that much of an impediment.

Owen