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Re: [HACKERS] Linux.conf.au 2003 Report

Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>

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From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-01-31T01:58:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> I don't know anything
> about v6, but I'd imagine v4 addresses form a defined subset of the v6
> address space ...

No, they do not. The address spaces are completely independent. (There
is a "compatability space" for IPv4 addresses, but it turned out to be
impractical, and thus is generally not used. Certainly you cannot route
to arbitrary v4 hosts using a v6 address.)

cjs
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