[zeromq-dev] IPv6 patch

[Steven McCoy]

2010/1/27 Martin Sustrik <sustrik at 250bpm.com>

> The address is parsed using getaddrinfo (both IPv4 and IPv6). If I make the
> code ignore the brackets, even following addresses would become valid:
>
> tcp://[127.0.0.1]:5555
> tcp://[server001.zeromq.org]:5555
>
> I an not sure that the above is desirable behaviour.
>
>
It's only valid with IPv6 literal addresses, I was lucky with the code paths
in OpenPGM as it follows well.

For ZeroMQ, if you see an open square bracket basically force AF_INET6 and
perform a getaddrinfo lookup with AI_NUMERICHOST.

-- 
Steve-o
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