To:
Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@Sun.COM>
cc:
Rob Austein <sra+dnsop@hactrn.net>, <dnsop@cafax.se>
From:
Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Date:
Thu, 7 Aug 2003 09:21:13 +0300 (EEST)
In-Reply-To:
<3F3196A6.10003@sun.com>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: the well-known address approach
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Alain Durand wrote: [...] > Generally speaking, sevral people were uncomfortable > with the idea of overloading IP addresses with service semantic. > For example, it is common practice in IPv4 to use x.x.x.1/24 or y.y.y.254/24 > for the local router on the link, but there is no protocol that makes > this assumption. People were reluctant to make this step in IPv6. There is such an address -- the subnet-router anycast address. However, I'm not so sure it works in all the cases, e.g. RFC2461 Redirects, or that it even should.. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.