On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > How do you specify a link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? > > For example, I can ping/telnet/ssh to fe80::02c0:4eff:fe07:0005%eth1, > but I can't figure out how to put that address in /etc/hosts so I can > access it by name.
Just put the address without the %iface. Then you must specify the interface in your program, for example: in /etc/hosts: fe80::02c0:4eff:fe07:0005 foobar ping6 -I eth0 foobar should work. > Similarly, how do you enter an ipv6 link-local address in Firefox or > Opera? curl seems to accept such an address and return the proper web > page, but I can't find any interactive browser (graphical or > command-line) that will accept a link-local address. So far I've > tried Firefox Opera w3m links. According to RFC2732 it looks like the > format should be > > http://[fe80::02c0:4eff:fe07:0005%eth1]:80/ % in a URL must be escaped, so you probably need to replace the % symbol with %25. Try this: http://[fe80::02c0:4eff:fe07:0005%25eth1]:80/ I didn't try it. Good luck. :)
