Re: About IPv6 private address

[james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>]

On Feb 4, 2008, at 07:00, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 4 feb 2008, at 8:43, blue wrote:
> > Even by mDNS or LLMNR, the device need to reply the queried name,  
> > such as "gateway.local.", with a valid IPv6 address except link- 
> > local address since DNS record could not allow link-local address  
> > to be carried.
>
> Is there any particular reason we're reinventing this specific  
> wheel for which excellent implementations exist? In my webbrowser I  
> can look under "bonjour" (sometimes mistakenly called mDNS) and get  
> a list of printers on the local network.

On top of that, it already works, today, with IPv6-- which is a win  
when the browsing host has multiple network interfaces, as most  
personal computers do these days.  IPv6 link-local addresses are  
scoped to the interface, so addressing conflicts are completely avoided.

Some people just want to make things harder than necessary to use, I  
guess.


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james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>
member of technical staff, communications engineering