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

Michael Thomas mike at mtcc.com
Wed Nov 28 21:28:16 UTC 2012


On 11/28/2012 10:30 AM, david peahi wrote:
> On the practical side: Have all programmers created a 128 bit field to
> store the IPv6 address, where IPv4 programs use a 32 bit field to store the
> IP address? This would seem to be similar to the year 2000 case where
> almost all programs required auditing to see if they took into account
> dates after 1999.
>

Surely you mean varchar(15), right? :)

Mike




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