Hi Michael, On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 06:21:20PM +0000, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.25-1 > Severity: normal > Tags: ipv6 > > The phrase > > The address notation for IPv6 is a group of 16 2-digit hexadecimal > numbers > > is incorrect. It should read > > The address notation for IPv6 is a group of 8 4-digit hexadecimal > numbers
Paul's info in the patch against current git, attached. -- Simon Paillard
>From 1ffdaa56f059bd379915e747f24c4924dcbd90b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Paillard <spaill...@debian.org> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:11:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ipv6.7: wfix in address notation Reported by Paul LeoNerd Evans at http://bugs.debian.org/604044 --- man7/ipv6.7 | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/ipv6.7 b/man7/ipv6.7 index 1e3b4c6..3951a2b 100644 --- a/man7/ipv6.7 +++ b/man7/ipv6.7 @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ anycast to address the nearest member of a group of hosts (not implemented in Linux), IPv4-on-IPv6 to address a IPv4 host, and other reserved address types. .PP -The address notation for IPv6 is a group of 16 2-digit hexadecimal +The address notation for IPv6 is a group of 8 4-digit hexadecimal numbers, separated with a \(aq:\(aq. \&"::" stands for a string of 0 bits. Special addresses are ::1 for loopback and ::FFFF:<IPv4 address> -- 1.7.2.3
