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Re: IPv6 routing /48s

  • From: Mark Andrews
  • Date: Tue Nov 25 20:01:07 2008

Mark Andrews writes:
> 
> In message <[email protected]>, Niels Bakker writes:
> > * [email protected] (Tony Hain) [Wed 26 Nov 2008, 01:03 CET]:
> > > In any case, content providers can avoid the confusion if they simply put
>  u
> > p
> > > a local 6to4 router alongside their 2001:: prefix, and populate DNS with
> > > both. Longest match will cause 2001:: connected systems to chose that dst
> ,
> > > while 6to4 connected systems will chose 2002:: as the dst. There is no ne
> ed
> > 
> > Huh?  Longest match done by web browsers and other applications?  Since 
> > when?
> 
> FreeBSD 6 has is as part of the standard getaddrinfo() implementation.
> 
> % grep -r in6_addrpolicy /usr/src/lib/libc
> /usr/src/lib/libc/net/getaddrinfo.c:    struct in6_addrpolicy pc_policy;
> /usr/src/lib/libc/net/getaddrinfo.c:    struct in6_addrpolicy *pol, *ep;
> /usr/src/lib/libc/net/getaddrinfo.c:    ep = (struct in6_addrpolicy *)(buf + 
> l);
> /usr/src/lib/libc/net/getaddrinfo.c:    for (pol = (struct in6_addrpolicy *)b
> uf; pol + 1 <= ep; pol++) {
> /usr/src/lib/libc/net/getaddrinfo.c:    struct in6_addrpolicy *pol;
> /usr/src/lib/libc/net/name6.c:  struct in6_addrpolicy pc_policy;
> /usr/src/lib/libc/net/name6.c:  struct in6_addrpolicy *pol, *ep;
> /usr/src/lib/libc/net/name6.c:  ep = (struct in6_addrpolicy *)(buf + l);
> /usr/src/lib/libc/net/name6.c:  for (pol = (struct in6_addrpolicy *)buf; pol 
> + 1 <= ep; pol++) {
> /usr/src/lib/libc/net/name6.c:  struct in6_addrpolicy *pol;
> % 

	And it was added on 30-Oct-03 according to CVS.
  
	Mark
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