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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:45:29 +0900
From:      Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, so@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proposal: Enable IPv6 Privacy Extensions (RFCs 3041/4941) by default
Message-ID:  <484E3119.4060102@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <484E0C08.1060800@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <484E0C08.1060800@FreeBSD.org>

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> To address those privacy concerns RFC 3041 was written, and eventually
> obsoleted by RFC 4941. ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4941.txt
> Our IPv6 implementation comes with the code to enable this feature,
> but by default it is turned off. My proposal is to enable it by
> default, and give the user a knob in rc.conf to turn it off.

the only drawback is that forward and reverse dns would not be easily
filled.  but anyone who relies on a mac address for dns hacking is
asking for trouble; use dhcpv6 or hard code the host's ip address in
/etc/rc.conf.

so i have no problem with the change.  thanks for asking.

randy



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