<html><head><base href="x-msg://81/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dev,<div><br><div><div>On 28/10/2009, at 6:54 AM, dev nath wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi *,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We were trying to use nss-mdns to support mdns query from the applications. We want to use "enable-legacy" option which has the mini MDNS stack. But in this mode <tt>nss-mdns</tt><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>supports resolving IPv6 addresses but does so via IPv4 multicasts only. Is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><font size="3">there any reason why this is not supported on IPV6 packets.</font></strong></div></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>IPv6 support was simply not coded into nss-mdns originally.</div><div><br></div><div>Since it was later replaced by the functionality to use Avahi - it is now deprecated and has not received any further work. Using the avahi backend is the recommended method for full support.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Trent</div></div></div></body></html>