Re: OpenDKIM fails to sign IPv6 localhost originating email

From: SM <sm_at_resistor.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:51:49 -0800

Hi Murray,
At 15:55 03-01-2013, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>I know that when expressing an IP address literal in SMTP or in an
>email message, the square brackets are required. I don't know that
>it extends to all other contexts. If it does, I have to wonder why
>inet_ntop() doesn't add them for you ...

The problem for the textual representation of IPv6 address was the
different representations (RFC 5952). There's also the ":" which is
used in URIs as a separator for the port number. BTW, that case does
not arise for OpenDKIM. I took a quick look and could not find any
"standard" on square brackets being required for textual
representation of an IPv6 address. inet_ntop() adheres to RFC 2373.

Regards,
-sm
Received on Fri Jan 04 2013 - 00:52:07 PST