Leif Johansson wrote:There are obvious reasons for filtering as Bob Austin pointed out last night/this
Of course we filter -
What is your requirement to do that? I am serious, because those are the
things the current draft is trying to document. If it is not covered by the
current text, please send details.
morning (time-differentiated threads when you are wrapped-around is a nightmare :-) )
Our reasons are the typical ones - mostly protecting from various features in M$
software. An important point is that there are few hosts which are *only* local.
In my experience a local-only host (eg a database-server part of a N-tier application)
are comparatively rare. Using locally scoped addresses for those is just more work
than putting the damned thing behind a firewall and filtering everything.
Currently the largest set of locally scoped hosts in my network are phones. This is
in itself a major pain since I am unable to deploy sip-to-the edge to these phones
and consequently I am in the process of getting globally scoped addresses for these
hosts.
Right now I cannot find a single application where locally scoped addresses give
me anything worth the effort. Those are my 5 cents - since you asked for details :-)
Cheers Leif
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