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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:07:57 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: addr2ascii() to be retired ?
Message-ID:  <20060324100007.C2181@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
In-Reply-To: <51873.1143193173@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <51873.1143193173@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> I noticed while hunting around for what eventually proved to be
> getnameinfo() that addr2ascii() is not used anywhere in our tree.
>
> Was that API ever used anywhere but in INRIAs IPv6 ?

I think it was part of earlier drafts of RFC 2133 which now is 3493.
We have inet_ntop instead now[1].

> Should we discontinue it ?

+1


[1] http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/96jun/area.and.wg.reports/int/ipng-minutes-96jun.html

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Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT



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