Re: [arch-d] Treating "private" address ranges specially

Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> Wed, 31 March 2021 06:21 UTC

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:20:39 +1100
From: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
To: Erik Kline <ek.ietf@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [arch-d] Treating "private" address ranges specially
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On Wed, Mar 31, 2021, at 17:17, Erik Kline wrote:
> My mistake.  I think the key text I didn't property absord was "the 
> current url's host".

:) Yes, though if you have name resolution that produces a ULA (which might happen in mDNS), then you would be contacting a "private" address.