On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 04:20 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
> I've got some other problems with the document also - specifically
> the idea that link-local addresses are preferable to global addresses.
> Global addresses are always preferable because all applications
> can tolerate them. At most, LL addresses should be used only
> when there is no other alternative, because some applications
> need to treat them specially (this isn't as bad in v6 as in v4)
> But LL addresses should probably be used only when they are
> explicitly specified.
I would agree there. If an application stores the IP address of its peer
for future use,
on a multi-interface node, if link-local addresses are used and the
application
did not kept track of the incoming interface, there would be some issues
when
it would like to reconnect to its peer.
- Alain.
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