[dns-operations] Link-local IP addresses for a resolver?

[Tony Finch]

Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>
> We added scope ID support to /etc/resolv.conf in upstream glibc a
> couple of years ago, in 2008.  I can easily see that others may not
> have done this, so I agree that there could be problems.

I did a bit of a survey in 2014 and found that prominent DNS
libraries didn't support link-local addresses back then
http://lists.cluenet.de/pipermail/ipv6-ops/2014-July/010035.html
Maybe it's better now :-)

Tony.
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