IPv6 support

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 06/09/2011 12:57 PM, Mark Elsen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericsson<ae at op5.se>  wrote:
>> On 06/09/2011 08:15 AM, Patrik Båt wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> How is the IPv6 support in Nagios Core? with macros, and address6 ?
>>>
>>
>> Nagios core doesn't care one whit about ip addresses. Handling DNS
>> lookups and ipv6 addresses is a job for the various plugins. The
>> nagios-plugins project has had ipv6 support for some time. For other
>> plugins you'll have to see for yourself and either write patches or
>> contact the original author for help if you want ipv6 support.
>>
> 
> That's probably not completely true, because the config files allow you to
> specify IP addresses, if so desired. If IPv6 aware, these should, at least,be
> parsed correctly ?
> 

They are. Colon is a valid character for configuration files, as are
all hexadecimal characters.

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