In message <cajvb4tnps4csjsf37sc4a4mqox0uuwkvpniecofqalxowk+...@mail.gmail.com> , Blake Dunlap writes: > Or, alternately, don't care what your printer's ridiculously long IPv6 IP is > at this moment, (ULA/GUA/assigned: it really doesn't matter) and use mdns > like normal people. Otherwise we're ignoring the forest for the trees, I > don't expect to try to explain to my grandma how to type in > 2001:45ea:344b:dead:beef::27 and/or remember it, when "printer1" will do. > > This just makes me think of this: http://bash.org/?14258 > > If we need a way to mdns to work across subnet boundries in a single > administrative domain, so be it. If we need a better mdns, lets make that > too, but we *really* need to get away from direct IPs in general.
You are totally missing the point which is that the printer has a *routable* address when the home, with possibly multiple subnets, is disconnected or has never connected to the global network. link-locals are insufficient for a routed home. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org