IPv6 in the enterprise

[Mark Smith]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:30:58 +0200
"S.P.Zeidler" <spz at serpens.de> wrote:

> Thus wrote Mark Smith (nanog at 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org):
> 
> > On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:49:38 +0200
> > "S.P.Zeidler" <spz at serpens.de> wrote:
> > > The original premise was that all hosts including servers should use
> > > SLAAC. I gave an example where even a very small setup reaches the point
> > > where that is annoying.
> > 
> > No it wasn't.
> 
> Ok, I read you wrong then.
> 
> [...]
> >    As Erik
> >   Kline suggested, a ping6 shorthand command line option such as "%0"
> >   or "%default" for pinging the default router would eliminate that
> >   problem.
> 
> Would the % be strictly necessary? It'll mess with interface identifier
> recognition. Given that the route command uses just 'default',
> principle of least surprise would use that too.
> 

I think something like % as a prefix would be necessary to distinguish
it from a relative DNS name. 

The "::" or "unspecified" address as the ping destination to test the
hosts's default router might be quite good although on my Linux box
both ping6 and telnet resolve that to ::1. I'd think most people wouldn't expect
that behavior (they'd use ::1 if that's actually what they want), so
having :: have a special meaning for ping might be ok.

Regards,
Mark.