[ On Friday, January 31, 2003 at 15:23:32 (+0000), Philip Hazel wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] IP parser doesn't recognise link-local addresses
>
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>
> > IPv6 addresses have a notion of "scope", or "size of area where the
> > address has a meaning".
>
> Yes, that I knew about.
I don't know about other implementations, but the NetBSD getaddrinfo(3)
will allow IPv6 address notation with the scope identifier following a
percent character (and for getnameinfo(3) these are produced by using
the NI_WITHSCOPEID flag). However the manual warns:
The implementation is still very experimental and non-standard. The cur-
rent implementation assumes one-by-one relationship between interface and
link, which is not necessarily true from the specification.
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