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bug#38666: Maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option)
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Marius Bakke |
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bug#38666: Maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option) |
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Thu, 26 Dec 2019 16:28:25 +0100 |
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Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> writes:
> Hmm, would it make sense to deprecate the "netcat" package then--with a hint
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> how to get the functionality (by installing nmap)?
There is no shortage of netcats in Guix.
In addition to 'ncat', there is 'netcat-openbsd', and LibreSSL also
includes a 'nc' executable; all of which support IPv6 to my knowledge.
I don't have an opinion on favoring one over the other. But it would be
good to deprecate the unmaintained GNU netcat with something that works.
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