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Re: [opensuse] Email, suse, and ipv6 name resolution curiosity.
  • From: Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:01:47 +0200
  • Message-id: <200707151201.47969.ajohansson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sunday 15 July 2007 11:52:54 Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
> Right. But there is no valid (public) address range in IPv6 that starts
> with
>
> ::ffff , so this address can never be resolved by an Internet DNS.

Yes there is, that is how ipv4 addresses are mapped into the ipv6 address 
space.

http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_IPv6IPv4AddressEmbedding-2.htm
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