Adamson, Dros wrote: Who the hell thought it was a good idea for IPv6 to use ':' as a delimiter!? Is it paranoid to think they designed it that way to make our lives harder? ;) I remember commenting on this at an IETF in, like, 1992. Even back then before the web ":" was often used to separate IP address from port. The response, as I recall, was that we'd never use numeric addresses at the application level, only domain names. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html