On 31 July 2014 06:21, Edward Burns <edward.burns_at_oracle.com> wrote:
> To be clear, the presence of [ in the host name unambiguously indicates
> that the hostname should be treated as an IPv6 host name, otherwise, we
> must treat it as an IPv4 hostname. Right?
>
Hmmm well it looks like an IPv4 IP address is also a valid reg-name.
So the [ indicates the IPv6 (or future) address, otherwise it is IPv4 or a
reg-name.
cheers
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