On Aug 2, 2011, at 9:33 PM, Blake Dunlap wrote: > Or, alternately, don't care what your printer's ridiculously long IPv6 IP is > at this moment, (ULA/GUA/assigned: it really doesn't matter) and use mdns > like normal people. Otherwise we're ignoring the forest for the trees, I > don't expect to try to explain to my grandma how to type in > 2001:45ea:344b:dead:beef::27 and/or remember it, when "printer1" will do. > > This just makes me think of this: http://bash.org/?14258 > > > If we need a way to mdns to work across subnet boundries in a single > administrative domain, so be it. If we need a better mdns, lets make that > too, but we *really* need to get away from direct IPs in general. > > -Blake
In IPv6, that should be a relatively simple matter of changing the MDNS address from starting with ff01 to ff02 or ff04. Owen
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