Re: dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Aug 2, 2011, at 9:33 PM, Blake Dunlap wrote:

> Or, alternately, don't care what your printer's ridiculously long IPv6 IP is
> at this moment, (ULA/GUA/assigned: it really doesn't matter) and use mdns
> like normal people. Otherwise we're ignoring the forest for the trees, I
> don't expect to try to explain to my grandma how to type in
> 2001:45ea:344b:dead:beef::27 and/or remember it, when "printer1" will do.
>
> This just makes me think of this: http://bash.org/?14258
>
>
> If we need a way to mdns to work across subnet boundries in a single
> administrative domain, so be it. If we need a better mdns, lets make that
> too, but we *really* need to get away from direct IPs in general.
>
> -Blake

In IPv6, that should be a relatively simple matter of changing the MDNS
address from starting with ff01 to ff02 or ff04.

Owen

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