New on RIPE Labs: What’s the Deal with IPv6 Link-Local Addresses?
Dear colleagues, Stephen Strowes, Emile Aben and I published a new article on RIPE Labs on how link-local addresses in IPv6, and specifically the '%eth0'-part of link-local addresses, can have an impact on RIPE Atlas measurements. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/philip_homburg/whats-the-deal-with-ipv6-link-l... We think this will be an interesting read for network operators and others who are using RIPE Atlas measurement data or are interested in IPv6. Kind regards, Philip Homburg RIPE NCC
Am 11.03.20 um 11:40 schrieb Philip Homburg:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/philip_homburg/whats-the-deal-with-ipv6-link-l...
Thank you for this good explanation. I disagree with one thing: "The reason is that the use of link-local addresses for DNS resolvers is quite rare" I have seen a lot of such setups. (some LTE-Routers, fritzboxes without Unique Local Unicast and speedports) "For anchors and software probes, the measurement code will use whatever it finds in /etc/resolv.conf. So far, none of those contained link-local addresses." That will be changed tonight :-) Regards, Thomas -- There’s no place like ::1 Thomas Schäfer (Systemverwaltung) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Centrum für Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung Oettingenstraße 67 Raum C109 80538 München ☎ +49/89/2180-9706 ℻ +49/89/2180-9701
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