> On Oct 1, 2015, at 10:45 AM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Uh, no. The *only* loopback address is ::1. The rest of 0000::/8 is >>> reserved. >> >> Anything is a loopback address if you alias it on your loopback interface. >> >> ::2 was only intended as an example (that's why I said "salt to taste"), >> but it was not a particularly well-chosen one. > > On your system, I'm sure it works fine. On other systems that > implement IPv6 in other ways, maybe not.
Which is why I think https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ipversion6-loopback-prefix-00 should be resurrected (not directly relevant to DNSOP of course). Regards, -drc
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