Implement support for IPv4-Mapped Addresses
dadepo opened this issue · 1 comments
dadepo commented
It is possible to have an IPv6 number that represents an IPv4 number.
Implement support for this feature where it should be possible to:
- Encode an IPv4 number in IPv6
- Convert an IPv4 mapped IPv6 to a plain IPv4 number
- Convert an IPv4 number to an IPv4-Mapped IPv6 number
etc
References:
Re: Deprecate the "IPv4-compatible IPv6 address"
Special-Use IPv6 Addresses