[AusNOG] Default IPv6 Local Only Addressing for Non-Internet Devices

[Tomas Gibbs]

IIRC should be just fine to give it a public address aslong as you have firewalls in front to block traffic from outside to in.

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From: AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at gmail.com>
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Subject: [AusNOG] Default IPv6 Local Only Addressing for Non-Internet Devices

Hi,

Quite closely related to my recent AusNOG "Getting IPv6 Private
Addressing Right" presentation.

I recently bought an IPv6 enabled Wifi printer. As it is attached to
my single Wifi SSID it is configuring itself with IPv6 global
addresses, even though I don't need it to be reachable from the
Internet or able to reach the Internet. (It would be relatively hard
to find from the Internet anyway with /64 prefix, and there is an IPv6
firewall in front if it).

I think it would be better for these types of "Non-Internet' devices
not to configure themselves with global IPv6 addresses by default.

"Default IPv6 Local Only Addressing for Non-Internet Devices"
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-smith-v6ops-local-only-addressing/

Regards,
Mark.
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