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IPv6 & Linux - Current Status - C-Library

Version: 1.81 from 2005-10-17
Copyright 1999-2005 by Peter Bieringer <pb@bieringer.de>, original site of publishing: http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/
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GNU C library

URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
 
Feature 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3
 Comments
IPv6 address query support no yes yes yes
Resolver can use native IPv6 transport for queries
 no no yes yes Replace the IPv4 address of a DNS server in /etc/resolv.conf with an IPv6 address of a IPv6-enabled DNS-Server (e.g. BIND9)
IPv6 RPC bind
 no
 no
 no
 no Not planned, ongoing work-in-progress to separate the Transport Independent RPC (TI-RCP), see here for more:
http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/doc/nfs_ipv6.php
http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/doc/tirpc_rpcbind.php

dietlibc

libc, optimized for small size

URL: http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/
 
Feature Status
IPv6 address query support yes
Resolver can use native IPv6 transport for queries
 supported since version 0.10
IPv6 RPC bind
 not planned, see above

uClibc

libc, optimized for embedded systems

URL: http://www.uclibc.org/
 
Feature Status
IPv6 address query support currently unknown
Resolver can use native IPv6 transport for queries
 currently unknown
IPv6 RPC bind
 currently unknown, see above