Re: administrivia (on avoiding injury)

[Jim Bound <seamus@bit-net.com>]

Matt,

There is no way to kill an address now in IPv6 ND with validlife == 0 as
rtr unless you ignore the addrconf spec language. I actually wrote this
code and shipped it and it should have a backdoor not that I am saying I
would do such a thing :---) 

/jim

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Matt Crawford wrote:

> > Just as note.  The addconf spec prohibits sending rtr advs with lifetimes
> > less than 2 hours for valid lifetime.
> 
> That is not precisely so.
> 
> > This was to prevent DOS on the link.  So the app has time to use
> > new address that are not involved with multihoming for 2 hours.
> 
> But is I have followed the thread properly, this is still true.
> And the bum prefix is only going to be deprecated, not invalidated,
> isn't it?
>