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Re: 3484bis and privacy addresses

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Tue, 27 March 2012 13:27 UTC

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On 03/27/2012 12:40 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
> While I realise that the Argument From Personal Ignorance is not very
> convincing, I am having a very hard time imagining why anyone would turn
> on privacy addresses, then prefer non-privacy addresses...

They don't. Some operating systems enable them by default.

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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