On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
> parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
> address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
> this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
> address literals are enabled, of course).
>
> For future reference, you may wish to be aware that this uniquely
> identifies my IPv4 address (IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229::/48 == 193.237.130.41),
> the the 6to4 IPv6 subnet behind it and the MAC address of the Buffalo
> Wavelan card I was using in my laptop at the time.
Apologies. I should have used a non-specific address.
> I don't particularly mind and I'm not asking you to change it -- but
> given the level of paranoia others on the list have shown, I suspect
> they may not all feel the same if you quote their IPv6 addresses :)
Mea culpa.
> Just because a bug report hasn't been acknowledged doesn't mean it's not
> on your list, does it?
I try to put most bugs that I see on the list onto my work list.
However, the mailing list is so busy these days...
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