Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))
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Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

Tony Hain wrote: 
Margaret Wasserman wrote:

Of course, in the case of site-local addresses, you don't know for sure that you reached the _correct_ peer, unless you know for sure that the node you want to reach is in your site. 


Since the address block is ambiguous, routing will assure that if you
reach a node it is the correct one. This FUD needs to stop!


Right up till the point where two companies start communicating with one another directly with site-locals. Even if there is a router frob to keep the scopes scoped, you can bet it won't be used until someone realizes that the above problem occurred.

Eliot




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