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Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications"....


From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:28:16 -0800

On 11/28/2012 10:30 AM, david peahi wrote:
On the practical side: Have all programmers created a 128 bit field to
store the IPv6 address, where IPv4 programs use a 32 bit field to store the
IP address? This would seem to be similar to the year 2000 case where
almost all programs required auditing to see if they took into account
dates after 1999.


Surely you mean varchar(15), right? :)

Mike


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