On 2016-07-08 04:33, Matt Palmer wrote:
On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 06:36:23PM -0700, Ca By wrote:
On Thursday, July 7, 2016, Spencer Ryan <sryan@arbor.net> wrote:
Dotted-quad notation is completely valid, and works fine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Presentation
http://[::ffff:37.48.108.112] loads fine in my browsers. It may be legit on your network, but people generally don't do that.... If they publish a aaaa record, it usually has a legit v6 address in it. That is a legit IPv6 address.
No it is not. It is a format intended to be used only within a process to store IPv4 addresses in a single common data structure for IPv4/IPv6 or for use in a socket API so a combined IPv4/IPv6 interface can be provided. There is no requirement that other processes understand it. There is no requirement that IPv4-mapped addressing is not disabled on a system supporting IPv6 (RFC4291 section 8 security considerations). From RFC5156: 2.2 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5156#section-2.2>. IPv4-Mapped Addresses ::FFFF:0:0/96 are the IPv4-mapped addresses [RFC4291 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4291>]. Addresses within this block should not appear on the public Internet. You can put it in a AAAA record just as you can configure a 10.0.0.0/8 address there, but there can be no expectation that it will do anything useful outside your own environment. Regards, Baldur