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Re: [v6ops] FW: New Version Notification for draft-ipversion6-loopback-prefix-00.txt

Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Tue, 17 February 2015 10:31 UTC

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In message <CAKD1Yr0JZ735RWO=yvrQ9PRHkfnX4juMgugQ1XODgU7+K9Cm4g@mail.gmail.com>
, Lorenzo Colitti writes:
> Pointing network  at addresses inside 127.0.0.0/8 is a very reliable way to
> cause said applications to fail fast without emitting any packets. We don't
> have a way to do that in IPv6 except pointing them at ::1.

Packets to from fe80::1%lo0 only go over the loopback interface.

Mark
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