[PATCH] Add IPv6 support to GeoIP module

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Fri Apr 13 10:47:24 UTC 2012


Hello!

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:11:53AM +0200, Bruno Prémont wrote:

> Hello Maxim,
> 
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:52:10 Maxim Dounin wrote:
> > IPv6 database can't really drop ipv4 mapped addresses, as it's just 
> > part of ipv6 address space and may appear even if you aren't using 
> > ipv4 at all.  (This isn't really good for security reasons, but 
> > that's completely different story.)
> > 
> > So you are happy with Gregor's patch, right?  Let's focus on it 
> > then.
> 
> What's the state of/progress with Gregor's patch?
> 
> I've been using it on top of 1.0.x since October without any issues.
> Is there anything preventing it from being applied?

We'll work on various ipv6-related things after 1.2.0 release (it 
was expected to happen yesterday, but was postponed to avoid 
interference with security updates; next expected date is about 23 
april).  It will likely be committed then.

Maxim Dounin



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