On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:18:41AM -0500, Margaret Wasserman wrote: [...] > Reverse (address-to-name) queries for IPv6 Local addresses must > not be sent to name servers for the global DNS, due to the load that such > queries would create for the authoritative name servers for the > ip6.arpa zone. This form of query load is not specific to Local IPv6 > addresses; any current form of local addressing creates additional > load of this kind, due to reverse queries leaking out of the site. However, > since allowing such queries to escape from the site serves > no useful purpose, there is no good reason to make the existing > load problems worse.
I haven't thought of this before, but I suppose there might be a similar problem for link-local addresses. As you say, it's any local addressing. I suppose the number of lookups for link-local is small compared to what we'll have for ULA though. Stig -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
