On 20-sep-2007, at 14:32, Keith Moore wrote:
If applications don't want to worry about addressing issues, the only
solution is that applications don't get to see addresses in the first
place.
If you can find a good way to let hosts and network stacks sort out
those addressing issues, then fewer applications will bother to manage
those addresses themselves. But absent such a way to do that (and
trial-and-error is not a good way, nor is IPv6 "address selection")
then
more applications will be forced to manage those addresses in order to
provide decent service to users.
Well, a start would be a "connectbyname()" API call that takes care
of name-to-address mapping and trying different addresses until one
works.
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