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

[Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:43:38 -0600
"Matt Crawford" <crawdad at fnal.gov> wrote:

> > All things SL is claimed to solve are solveable with unique
> > addresses too, as long as you've got enough of them. The rest is
> > just simple (perhaps tedious) work that every operations-aware
> > person I know of would prefer to madness.
> 
> All right, how do you make internal site communications completely
> oblivious to a change in your externally-visible routing prefix?

You declare that any app that keeps connections around for more than
some time period T (say for 30 days) have a mechanism for
detecting and recovering from prefix changes. That solves the
problem for all apps, not just for local apps.