23 Nov
2021
23 Nov
'21
9:28 p.m.
It appears that Francis Booth via NANOG <boothf@boothlabs.me> said:
So we know RFC 2606 defined reserved TLDs like .lan and .home so there
Um, this must be a different RFC 2606 than the one the rest of us have read. It mentions neither .lan nor .home.
In order to solve the chicken/egg problem of having to know your IPv6 prefix and the address assigned to your router dynamically for nontechnical users to reach their router configuration pages, ...
SLAAC lets hosts find their prefix and router and optionally other stuff like the DNS servers. See RFC4862. This is a thoroughly solved problem. If your router is a captive portal like at a coffee shop and client devices need to open a web page to log in, see RFC 8910. R's, John