<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:07 AM, David-Sarah Hopwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david-sarah@jacaranda.org" target="_blank">david-sarah@jacaranda.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 16/02/13 21:05, Eugen Leitl wrote:<br>
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 03:14:54PM +0200, Randall Mason wrote:<br>
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Greg Troxel <<a href="mailto:gdt@ir.bbn.com">gdt@ir.bbn.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Also, fe80:: addresses should probably be ignored, as they are meant to<br>
>>> be used only on a single link.<br>
><br>
> Please do not forget <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cjdns" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cjdns</a> and related, which<br>
><br>
> cjdns addresses are the first 16 bytes (128 bits) of the SHA-512 of the<br>
> public key. All addresses must begin with the byte 0xFC, which in IPv6 resolution,<br>
> is a private address (so there is no collision with any external Internet addresses).<br>
<br>
</div>The prefix FC00::/7 (i.e. first byte 0xFC or 0xFD) is reserved for<br>
"unique local addresses" (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address</a><br>
and RFC 4193). However, I don't think that the arguments that Greg Troxel put<br>
forward apply to such addresses, in general. It's quite plausible that a<br>
Tahoe-LAFS grid could be made up entirely of nodes that are inter-routable<br>
using FC00::/7 addresses.<br></blockquote><br></div>A little test seems to confirm this:<br><br>> $ ping6 fc00::1234<br>> PING fc00::1234(fc00::1234) 56 data bytes<br>> --- fc00::1234 ping statistics ---<br>> 4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3000ms<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">works, whereas:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>> $ ping6 fe80::1234 <br>> connect: Invalid argument<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
falls over hard.<br></div></div>