GNU bug report logs - #38666
Maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option)

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>

Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 01:47:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 38666 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38666: Maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option)
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 13:04:55 -0500

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On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 02:46:07AM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option).
> 
> The latest official release on Sourceforge doesn't have it but Debian includes a patch to add it.

There is a more featured and maintained netcat implementation (ncat)
provided by the nmap package. It does support IPv6.

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