[128976] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sun Aug 22 03:14:16 2010
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:13:59 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <7E55F0C3-A9CF-4F10-B744-ADBD8FD999DC@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Joakim Aronius <joakim@aronius.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
>
