dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Wed Aug 3 07:14:38 UTC 2011


On Aug 2, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:

> 
> In message <CAJvB4tnPS4CsJSf37sc4a4mqOx0UuWKvPNiEcoFqaLXOwk+VmA at mail.gmail.com>
> , Blake Dunlap writes:
>> Or, alternately, don't care what your printer's ridiculously long IPv6 IP is
>> at this moment, (ULA/GUA/assigned: it really doesn't matter) and use mdns
>> like normal people. Otherwise we're ignoring the forest for the trees, I
>> don't expect to try to explain to my grandma how to type in
>> 2001:45ea:344b:dead:beef::27 and/or remember it, when "printer1" will do.
>> 
>> This just makes me think of this: http://bash.org/?14258
>> 
>> If we need a way to mdns to work across subnet boundries in a single
>> administrative domain, so be it. If we need a better mdns, lets make that
>> too, but we *really* need to get away from direct IPs in general.
> 
> You are totally missing the point which is that the printer has a
> *routable* address when the home, with possibly multiple subnets,
> is disconnected or has never connected to the global network.
> 
> link-locals are insufficient for a routed home.
> 

I get that and I have that with GUA without resorting to ULA.

Owen

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