RE: How to represent address/port pair?

What RFC is this in?   I expected to find the answer in 2373 (IPv6 Address
Architecture) but could not find it.  So I'm also curious:   how is the
scope index represented ?  is it inside the square brackets?  
 
The Win32 function WSAAddressToString will represent it this way as well,
i.e., with port outside the square brackets ( and scope index inside)
 
Thanks. 

Dave McLellan - Consulting Software Engineer 
Storage Platforms, Enablers, and Applications 
EMC Corporation 
228 South St. 
Hopkinton MA 01748 
phone: 508-249-1257 
fax 508-497-8030 

 


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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Lawrence Hughes
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 5:57 PM
To: Roy Smith; [email protected]
Subject: RE: How to represent address/port pair?


Yes, use square brackets around the IPv6 address - covered in an RFC:
 
[2001:ec8:4008:1::123]:80
 
Alternatively, use symbolic name via DNS:
 
www.kame.net:80 <http://www.kame.net:80> 

 
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From: [email protected] on behalf of Roy Smith
Sent: Sun 10/23/2005 1:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: How to represent address/port pair?



Is there a conventional way to represent a numeric IPv6 address along with
a port as a string?  With v4, many applications would interpret a ":" as
introducing a port number, i.e. "telnet 127.0.0.1:9999".  Obviously that
doesn't work well with v6 addresses.  Any recommendations for the best way
to do something like that with v6?

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