> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> rg
> writes:
> >
>
> >>
> >> I think this is the key point. Regardless of the possible benefits of
> >> site-local addresses -- and I'm willing to withhold judgment on that
> >> point -- we don't know in detail how to make them work. At a minimum,
> >> we need changes in routing and the DNS. We may need new global
> >> namespaces as well, with all that implies for co-ordination and
> >> administrative overhead.
> >
> > Well we already have a global managed namespace. The
> > scopename would be just be a name within the namespace
> > already delegated to you.
> >
> > host1.example.com. SA <SL-IPV6-address> site1.example.com.
> > host1.example.com. SA <SL-IPV6-address> site2.example.com.
> > host1.example.com. SA <global-IPV6-address> .
> >
> > host2.example.com. SA <SL-IPV6-address> site2.example.com.
> > host2.example.com. SA <global-IPV6-address> .
> >
> > host3.example.com. SA <SL-IPV6-address> site1.example.com.
> > host3.example.com. SA <global-IPV6-address> .
> >
> > Here host2.example.com and host3.example.com would have to
> > communicate using global addresses while host1.example.com
> > and host2.example.com could choose to use there site2.example.com
> > SL address and host1.example.com and host3.example.com could
> > choose to use there site1.example.com SL address.
>
> But some people have suggested that the main benefit of site-local
> addresses is for disconnected sites, which presumably don't have domain
> names...
If they are using the DNS to publish the addresses they *have* a
domainname. You can't use the DNS to do this without having a
domainname.
> --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
> http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)
>
>
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