Or rather, old applications hardcoded with AF_INET sockets need to be rewritten to use the AF-agnostic POSIX APIs - if you use getaddrinfo(), you generally don't need to care about the AF. Of course, there's some cross platform complications, but isn't there always...

Not that their IPv6 policy is any saner... de00::/8 - WTF.

D-Link does one better.

Not only does the DES-1228 (cheap web-managed switch) web interface not function properly with Firefox 3.0 (e.g. the VLAN settings), the switch will outright crash (i.e. stop switching traffic, even after a reboot) if configured using FF3.0 instead of, say, FF1.5 (which works fine).

We even ended up sending one back for a warranty replacement when it stopped working after one reset too many (thankfully the warranty service program is good).

Now if only the answers to the +5 Informative questions were as informative as the answer to the +5 Funny question was funny (there *are* some valid uses for "lol")...