quietly....

Wed Feb 2 16:19:06 UTC 2011

Matt Addison <matt.addison at lists.evilgeni.us> writes:

> I'll admit right now that I don't know nearly enough about the IETF process,
> but it looks like there have been 2 separate attempts at this:
> draft-lee-dnsop-resolver-wellknown-ipv6addr - ID, expired
> draft-ohta-preconfigured-dns - ID, expired
> 
> Until one of those is revived (or a similar draft is written), and makes it
> through IETF to reach RFC status, and there are assigned addresses from
> IANA, there are no well known addresses for anyone hardcode.

    Several microsoft OSes will automatically use fec0:0:0:ffff::1, 2,
and 3 if there is a nameserver there.