Let me talk a bit about this... :-)
On 7 July 2014 14:43, Andrew Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > What's the use case for an IPv6 endpoint? This service is just for > instance metadata, so as long as a requirement to support IPv4 is in place, > using solely an IPv4 endpoint avoids a number of complexities: > - Which one to try first? > - Which one is authoritative? > Only 1, IPv6 metadata network via link-local (fe80::)... > - Are both required to be present? I.e. can an instance really not have > any IPv4 support and expect to work? > No. Yes, I have tons of IPv6-Only machines, to reach IPv4, I'm using the couple DNS64 + NAT64. I see no use for IPv4 anymore... IPv4 can be deployed only at the border (i.e. as a legacy Floating IPv4 using NAT46)... - I'd presume the IPv6 endpoint would have to be link-local scope? Would > that mean that each subnet would need a compute metadata endpoint? > Good question... Apparently, IPv6 Link-Local fe80:: is the equivalent of 169.254 in IPv4 world... Just my two bitcents... ;-) > > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> I haven’t heard of anyone addressing this, but it seems useful. >> >> Vish >> >> On Jul 7, 2014, at 9:15 AM, Nir Yechiel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > AFAIK, the cloud-init metadata service can currently be accessed only >> by sending a request to http://169.254.169.254, and no IPv6 equivalent >> is currently implemented. Does anyone working on this or tried to address >> this before? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Nir >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > OpenStack-dev mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> > > > -- > Andrew Mann > DivvyCloud Inc. > www.divvycloud.com > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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