Re: administrivia (on avoiding injury)

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

ack...we were just answering a question...

/jim

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Matt Crawford wrote:

> > 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 would say rather that there is no way to immediately expire a
> prefix in the hosts unless *the hosts* ignore the addrconf spec's
> anti-DOS rules.  But you can keep advertising a, say, 10 minute
> lifetime and eventually hosts will get their own lifetimes for that
> prefix down to that value.  I don't see how this may be part of a
> multi6 solution so perhaps we should drop the thread.  (Or at least
> set its preferred lifetime to two hours.)
> 
> > > > Just as note.  The addconf spec prohibits sending rtr advs with
> > > > lifetimes less than 2 hours for valid lifetime.
> > > 
> > > That is not precisely so.
>