[zeromq-dev] IPv6

[Pieter Hintjens]

OK, new zmq_ctx_set (ctx, ZMQ_IPV6) option on libzmq master, when this
pull request gets merged: https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/pull/509

-Pieter

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It is good to hear that IPv6 will be flipped on by default. I have enabled it for all tcp connections in Salt and so far so good!
>
> That's not what I said... sorry for the misunderstanding.
>
> Switching on IPv6 by default will break a lot of existing applications
> that assume IPv4 endpoints.
>
> All I wanted to do was fix the syntax of the current mechanisms.
>
> What we can do quite easily is add a context level option to enable
> IPv6 for all sockets in that context, in one step.
>
> -Pieter