Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: sitelocal addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-04-03 Thread John Stracke
Keith Moore wrote: Then there's the problem that when a 800-pound gorilla ships code, that code largely defines expectations for what will and will not work in practice - often moreso than the standards themselves. Strange as I feel defending Microsoft, I actually think it's commendable that

Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: sitelocal addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-03-31 Thread John Stracke
Keith Moore wrote: site locals do not provide a well known flag because an application has no idea about the site boundary, Or boundaries: consider a private LAN where one part is firewalled from other parts of the same site. The single flag this address is site-local cannot mark that