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Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

John Stracke <jstracke@centive.com> Mon, 31 March 2003 18:44 UTC

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Keith Moore wrote:

>site locals do not provide a well known flag because an application has
>no idea about the site boundary,
>
Or boundaries: consider a private LAN where one part is firewalled from 
other parts of the same site.   The single flag "this address is 
site-local" cannot mark that boundary.

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