Hi, > On 26 Mar 2015, at 14:42, Enno Rey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 02:26:14PM +0100, Philip Homburg wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I forgot that RFC-6724 (Default Address Selection for Internet >> Protocol Version 6) now explicitly lists ULAs, so indeed they would >> not do any harm in trying to reach a dual-stack target. > > this would assume that > > a) the probes are supposed to follow RFC 6724. are they? > b) they actually _do_ this (follow RFC 6724) in practice. can this be > confirmed? [keeping the wide variety of potential IPv6 node behavior in mind]
If RFC 6434 (IPv6 Node Requirements) is being followed then RFC 6724 (as RFC 3484-bis) MUST be followed. But older implementations may only support RFC 3484. Further, some implementations appear to do other things (as I believe OS X does, with its preferences for IPv4 vs IPv6). Tim
