Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 8/21/10 11:52 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > I can remember early network printers using bootp and the assuming that
> > they could use that one ip address forever. today the printer will dhcp
> > and advertise it's availability in the same broadcast domain and may
> > well reregister it's name in dynamic dns if possible.
>
> Funny... I remember printers only thinking that if they were going to get
> moved, they'd also likely get unplugged and get a new address after
> the move.

rfc 951 made no provision in the protocol for the recovery of an
address. you may well get a new one but the old one is assigned forever
until someone prunes the cruft

> Owen