On 2011-11-23 11:09, Kerry Lynn wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Kerry Lynn <kerlyn2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Brian E Carpenter < >> brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 2011-11-23 05:34, Philip Homburg wrote: >>>> In your letter dated Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:30:03 +1100 you wrote: >>>>> On a related issue to link locals in URI's, we don't currently have >>>>> a good method of supporting link locals in the DNS. Sure we can >>>>> add them as AAAA records but they are essentially useless as the >>>>> scope information is lost. People keep saying use LL for disconnected >>>>> but it just doesn't work without more support. >>> Other people keep saying "use ULA for disconnected". The fact >>> that you can put ULA into (er, local) DNS without any fancy >>> stuff is a distinct advantage. >>> >>> IMHO link-local should be used only for bootstrapping a host and >>> for diagnostic purposes. I guess I could statically configure a >>> printer on fe00::a%1 if I really had no choice. >>> >>> BTW, I realized this whole conversation is probably re: local host files > just after I hit the "send" button ;-)
Yes, I could put fe80::a%1 printer1.local in my hosts file I guess. Except that on my o/s, the zone ID is not handled by the resolver at all, unsurprisingly. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
