NCFTP and IPV6.

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Nov 13 07:29:23 UTC 2007


John Summerfield wrote:
> William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209 wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>      In F7, ncftp-3.2.0 would gladly use the IPV6 address of a host if
>> offered.  In F8, ncftp-3.2.1 ignores the v6 address in favor of the v4
>> address.  I understand that a patch is required.  Does anyone know if
>> it will be added as errata in the lifetime of F8?
> 
> I thought ncftp had died. I used it as far back as my OS/2, but about
> ncftp 3.x I think it was it was changed incompatibly and became less
> useful to me.
> 
> These days I use lftp as my preferred ftp client. I think it's part of
> the default set.

I'm sorry, I have to ask.

How does that being to answer the OP's question?  I mean it doesn't even say
that lftp does what the OP wants.  Some folks may consider that answer
almost as bad as a poorly formed question.




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