Re: ntpd IPv6 support on Windows?

Danny Mayer wrote:
Dave Hart wrote:
On Jan 12, 6:52 pm, ma...@xxxxxxxxxxx (Danny Mayer) wrote:
We won't be supporting IPv6 on Windows
2000, it's just too difficult to deal with from a support point of view.

OK, Windows 2000 is too difficult to deal with from a support point of
view. Why on earth have we been talking about late-binding IPv6 APIs,
then? Just build a binary that requires WinXP/Windows Server 2003 or
later by using getaddrinfo as usual, thereby requiring ws2_32.dll
export it for ntp binaries to load at all. Boom, you've solved your
Windows NT and Windows 2000 support problems for good.


I was very specific here: I won't support Windows 2000 and IPv6. I did
not say anything about not supporting Windows 2000 with IPv4.

I also agree to that. If we can use late binding at runtime it should be
possible to have a single binary which runs on Windows 2000 without support
for IPv6 and on newer Windows versions with support for IPv6.

I guess the runtime thing is similar to building e.g. on a Linux system
which basically supports IPv6 but where IPv6 is just disabled in the OS.

Then no IPv6 interfaces are found, so no IPv6 interfaces are used.

Martin
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Martin Burnicki

Meinberg Funkuhren
Bad Pyrmont
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