On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 01:33:57AM -0000, John Levine wrote: > >It should be easy enough to create a local alias address for the purpose > >though. "ifconfig lo inet6 add ::2 alias", salt to taste. > > Uh, no. The *only* loopback address is ::1. The rest of 0000::/8 is > reserved.
Anything is a loopback address if you alias it on your loopback interface. ::2 was only intended as an example (that's why I said "salt to taste"), but it was not a particularly well-chosen one. I mean, I'd happily use it on my own system, as I'm reasonably confident there'll never be a real ::2 address for it to collide with, but for describing the mechanism in an RFC we should use something in the address space reserved for documentation, so let's say 2001:db8::1. -- Evan Hunt -- e...@isc.org Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
