IP6 Addresses and Vista in ASP.NET
Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog,
on 14 Nov 2006 |
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Heres a nice gotcha you might want to think about. Vista ships with IP Version 6 and this may in some situations affect how IP Addresses are returned by your Web applications.
As part of my ASP.NET tools I have a request logging module that hooks into the pipeline and picks up and logs requests to a database as part of the application. One of the things that gets logged is the IP Address. Since for the longest time we could be reasonably sure of what constitutes an IP address with a length...