[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #3717] Patch for IPv6 support in s_client/s_server
Quanah Gibson-Mount
quanah at zimbra.com
Tue Mar 24 20:54:50 UTC 2015
--On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:29 PM +0000 "Short, Todd"
<tshort at akamai.com> wrote:
> I was unaware of 2501. But that's fine by me… however, why hasn't
> 2051 been applied to the code?
People have been asking this question for years.
https://lwn.net/Articles/486369/
<http://openssl.6102.n7.nabble.com/Openssl-IPv6-Support-td54588.html>
Here's an even *older* RT from 2006:
<http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=1365&user=guest&pass=guest>
There's never been any sort of real substantive answer as to why getting
IPv6 support in has taken almost a decade, when people have constantly
supplied patches for it. Supposedly it was going to go into 1.0.2.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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