[ethereal-dev] inet_pton() and AF_INET6

[itojun@xxxxxxxxxx]

	In IPv6/v4 dual stack world, we use inet_pton() in place of
	inet_aton() in IPv4-only world (see RFC2553 for function prototype).
	inet_pton() gets address family information as argument (AF_INET6,
	for example).  There's no standard function for IPv6-only
	address string decoder.

	I would like to use inet_pton() to implement
	resolv.c:get_host_ipaddr6().  inet_pton() prior to ISC BIND82 has
	a bug and I have fixed code for it (to be used for workaround).
	However, it looks that ethereal tries to avoid use of AF_INET{,6}
	in the source code for portability (to be able to run on platforms
	that does not have AF_INET6), and it prevents me from using
	standard inet_pton().  What should I do in this case?

itojun