>> Uh, no. The *only* loopback address is ::1. The rest of 0000::/8 is >> reserved. > >Anything is a loopback address if you alias it on your loopback interface. > >::2 was only intended as an example (that's why I said "salt to taste"), >but it was not a particularly well-chosen one.
On your system, I'm sure it works fine. On other systems that implement IPv6 in other ways, maybe not. I have a Windows 7 box and as far as I can tell it doesn't even have a loopback interface, rather some special case for 127/8 and ::1. (Not ::2, I checked.) It seems to me a rather poor idea for an IETF document to advise people to use addresses that IETF standards documents say are reserved. R's, John _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
