On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Keith Moore wrote: > > (I don't think too many people would even want to register site-locals in > > the _global_ reverse DNS, queriable by anyone -- remember, they're not to > > be used globally, > > no, it doesn't follow. > > it seems to me that the thing we need to do is to not to try to prevent > leakage, but to make sure that leaked addresses don't cause harm.
I could live with that. > if we actually had globally unique site-locals, I don't see why we should > try to stop people listing them in DNS. "There is no free lunch." The whole concept of trying to put something like that in the reverse DNS (possibly meaning a flat space) makes my head hurt. At first sight, the cost seems _way_ too high, and profit borne only by few. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
