On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, 17:13 Tomas Gibbs, <[email protected]> wrote:
> IIRC should be just fine to give it a public address aslong as you have > firewalls in front to block traffic from outside to in. > Why give a device a public address if it doesn't need it to do its job? You don't need a network firewall to protect a device from the Internet that can't ever be reached from the Internet. > Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/ghei36> > > ------------------------------ > *From:* AusNOG <[email protected]> on behalf of Mark Smith < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 15, 2019 2:33:34 PM > *To:* <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [AusNOG] Default IPv6 Local Only Addressing for Non-Internet > Devices > > Hi, > > Quite closely related to my recent AusNOG "Getting IPv6 Private > Addressing Right" presentation. > > I recently bought an IPv6 enabled Wifi printer. As it is attached to > my single Wifi SSID it is configuring itself with IPv6 global > addresses, even though I don't need it to be reachable from the > Internet or able to reach the Internet. (It would be relatively hard > to find from the Internet anyway with /64 prefix, and there is an IPv6 > firewall in front if it). > > I think it would be better for these types of "Non-Internet' devices > not to configure themselves with global IPv6 addresses by default. > > "Default IPv6 Local Only Addressing for Non-Internet Devices" > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-smith-v6ops-local-only-addressing/ > > Regards, > Mark. > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >
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