Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in the DNS

2011-11-23 Thread Kerry Lynn
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

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in the DNS

2011-11-23 Thread Kerry Lynn
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

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in the DNS

2011-11-23 Thread Philip Homburg
In your letter dated Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:48:02 +1100 you wrote: ULA has similar scope issues. It's just that the OS don't knock you over when you do bind(), connect(), sendto() and sendmsg() without scope information. You can avoid using non local ULA with the same filtering mechanisms. I think

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in the DNS

2011-11-22 Thread Philip Homburg
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 records but they are essentially useless as the scope information is lost. People

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in the DNS

2011-11-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
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 records but they are essentially

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in the DNS

2011-11-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Kerry, In the case of link- local adresses stored in records, the zone index would seem to indicate the corresponding interface with respect to the *server* (assuming a multi-homed server here). Which is completely and utterly irrelevant to any host except that one particular physical

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in the DNS

2011-11-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
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

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in the DNS

2011-11-22 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4ecc0bab.4040...@gmail.com, Brian E Carpenter writes: 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

RE: Link-local IPv6 addresses in the DNS

2011-11-22 Thread Christian Huitema
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. I would rather not rely on DNS for that. Local discovery protocols like UPNP look more adequate to the task of

Link-local IPv6 addresses in the DNS

2011-11-21 Thread Mark Andrews
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 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