>
> On a separate note, I know this is probably just digging up dead
> discussions, but have people considered creating a new IPv6
> space which is
> "globally unique but not globally routable" for use in this
> sort of internal
> site communications? Such an address space would be useful,
> for instance,
> when merging two sites (which, if using site-local addresses,
> will require
> renumbering of one of the sites).
>
> Such addresses (lets call them unique-local addresses) could
> be put in DNS
> without concern for thier being mis-interpreted by other
> nodes. Granted
> when a node did a DNS lookup, it wouldn't know if a given unique-local
> address was in the same site, but it could learn easily by
> just sending a
> packet to that address and either succeeding or getting an ICMP dest
> unreachable.
I was thinking on this too the other day. We have room for additional
scopes.
Would an organizational scope fit your model which would be > than
site-local.
Then multisited servers would only hold organizational and avoid the global
address if they want to.
/jim
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