Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from smtp.mail.umich.edu ([141.211.14.81]:37796 "EHLO hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751052Ab2DTUdd (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:33:33 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:33:27 -0400 From: Jim Rees To: "Adamson, Dros" Cc: "Myklebust, Trond" , "" Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS4: fix referrals with IPv6 mounts Message-ID: <20120420203327.GA16736@umich.edu> References: <1334949705-33393-1-git-send-email-dros@netapp.com> <20120420194504.GA10259@umich.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Adamson, Dros wrote: Who the hell thought it was a good idea for IPv6 to use ':' as a delimiter!? Is it paranoid to think they designed it that way to make our lives harder? ;) I remember commenting on this at an IETF in, like, 1992. Even back then before the web ":" was often used to separate IP address from port. The response, as I recall, was that we'd never use numeric addresses at the application level, only domain names.