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Subject: looking for help with scanning of IPv6 interfaces
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 12:38:12 -0500
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
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1) Awhile ago there was a flame war about using SIOCGIFCONF/SIOCGLIFCONF
to get lists of interfaces. This was suggested as being a bad way.

2) bind 9.3snapshot is able to get a list of IPv4 addresses with SIOCGIFCONF,

3) it is not able to get IPv6 addresses with SIOCGLIFCONF.

Marc Andrews, sitting next to me, asked if I knew what the offical magic
was. Can someone point me that officially blessed way to do this?

]       ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine.           |  firewalls  [
]   Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON    |net architect[
] mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[
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