RE: [Fwd: Re: About IPv6 private address]

Firefox does not do anything there. The name resolution service in Windows Vista resolves names of the form fe80--213-49ff-fe04-507s8.ipv6-literal.net into the corresponding IPv6 address, in that example [fe80::213:49ff:fe04:507%8]. For Firefox, it is just a name lookup.

We put that feature in Vista because some applications had a very hard time parsing colons and percent signs. It really is a work around…

From: blue [mailto:susan.lan@zyxel.com.tw]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 7:15 PM
To: Christian Huitema
Cc: Brian E Carpenter; v6ops@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: About IPv6 private address]

Dear Christian:

Do you mean Firefox on Vista will translate the link-local address to the domain name suffixed "ipv6-literal.net"?

Currently my platform is Microsoft Windows XP instead of Windows Vista. However, I don't consider this behavior is related to the OS version.

Which version is your Firefox, please?

Thanks.
BR,
Yi-Wen

Christian Huitema wrote:

If you are running Firefox on Windows Vista, you should be able to try http://fe80--213-49ff-fe04-507s8.ipv6-literal.net/

From: owner-v6ops@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-v6ops@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of blue
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 5:34 PM
To: Brian E Carpenter
Cc: v6ops@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: About IPv6 private address]

Please forgive my dumbness but my Firefox version is 2.0.0.9

My IE could not connect to IPv6 URL either! (IE version 6.0)

Thanks.
BR,
Yi-Wen

Brian E Carpenter wrote:

That is a Firefox configuration issue, I think. I don't see that

problem (with Firefix 2.0.0.7, or with IE).

Is it possible that your browser is going to a proxy?

   Brian

On 2008-02-05 13:24, blue wrote:

Hi,

But after typing a link-local address, Firefox' message shows:

   Unable to find "www.fe80::213:49ff:fe04:507%8.com"

It translated typed "http://[fe80::213:49ff:fe04:507%8]" to

"http://[www.fe80::213:49ff:fe04:507%8.com]/".

However, a global unique IPv6 address worked!

I thought it proved that Firefox does not support link-local address.

Thanks.

BR,

Yi-Wen

Brian E Carpenter wrote:

Yes, users need to configure our device via http, and if there's no

well-known IPv6 address, how do users know which address to connect to?

I have thought about a pre-configured link-local address; however,

browsers such as Firefox does not support link-local address. Any

suggestions?

How come Firefox (or any other browser) knows how to *not* support

link-local addresses? As far as I can tell, it does support them.

Just don't forget the [ ] brackets.

When I tell Firefox to connect to http://[fe80::1]/ it gives me

an "unable to connect" message, but that's exactly what I'd expect.

When I tell Firefox to connect to http://[fe80::21a:a0ff:fe4a:d680%5]/

(my own link-local address) it gives me a "server not found" message,

which is also exactly what I'd expect, since I'm not listening on

port 80.

   Brian