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

John R Levine johnl at taugh.com
Thu Sep 26 00:39:00 UTC 2019


On Wed, 25 Sep 2019, Warren Kumari wrote:
> ULAs are very from unique -- there is a huge bias towards things which
> humans can remember / cute names, etc (this is very similar to the
> "IPv6 space is namp / scannable because people name hosts in
> deterministic ways" - see some presentations from Fernando Gont).
> There is a large ULA bias towards fd00::, fd10::, fdfd::,
> fd00:dead:beef:, fd00:bad:coff:ee::.

Sigh.  If people don't follow the spec, not much we can do about that. 
My ULAs start with fde3:783e:127d: which I generated with a one line shell 
script

$ jot -r -w%02x 10|rs

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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