In message <CAJvB4tnPS4CsJSf37sc4a4mqOx0UuWKvPNiEcoFqaLXOwk+VmA@mail.gmail.com> , Blake Dunlap writes:
Or, alternately, don't care what your printer's ridiculously long IPv6 IP is at this moment, (ULA/GUA/assigned: it really doesn't matter) and use mdns like normal people. Otherwise we're ignoring the forest for the trees, I don't expect to try to explain to my grandma how to type in 2001:45ea:344b:dead:beef::27 and/or remember it, when "printer1" will do.
This just makes me think of this: http://bash.org/?14258
If we need a way to mdns to work across subnet boundries in a single administrative domain, so be it. If we need a better mdns, lets make that too, but we *really* need to get away from direct IPs in general.
You are totally missing the point which is that the printer has a *routable* address when the home, with possibly multiple subnets, is disconnected or has never connected to the global network. link-locals are insufficient for a routed home. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org