[136336] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Hagerty)
Wed Feb 2 11:22:11 2011
To: Matt Addison <matt.addison@lists.evilgeni.us>
From: Daniel Hagerty <hag@linnaean.org>
Date: 02 Feb 2011 11:19:06 -0500
In-Reply-To: Matt Addison's message of "Wed, 2 Feb 2011 10:41:35 -0500"
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Matt Addison <matt.addison@lists.evilgeni.us> writes:
> I'll admit right now that I don't know nearly enough about the IETF process,
> but it looks like there have been 2 separate attempts at this:
> draft-lee-dnsop-resolver-wellknown-ipv6addr - ID, expired
> draft-ohta-preconfigured-dns - ID, expired
>
> Until one of those is revived (or a similar draft is written), and makes it
> through IETF to reach RFC status, and there are assigned addresses from
> IANA, there are no well known addresses for anyone hardcode.
Several microsoft OSes will automatically use fec0:0:0:ffff::1, 2,
and 3 if there is a nameserver there.