in reply to IPv6 in perl 5.8.4?

Perl itself has no support for any protocol (outside of a few older functions). That support is provided completely within modules, such as IO::Socket for networking. I would read the documentation for those modules you intend to use in order to see if they have IPv6 support. I would be surprised if they didn't.

Many people who use IPv6 are also using Apache, which does have support for IPv6.

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