Re: default ipv6 route?

[Ted Lemon <mellon%fugue.com@localhost>]

On Apr 24, 2015, at 9:55 AM, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
> One of my ISProviders is TWC. If you don't use DHCPv6, what you
> end up is the link-local address for each interface (which you get
> anyway), and a default route to the link-local address of the TWC
> router (through RA's), which is not useful if you don't have a real
> IPv6 address on any of your interfaces.
> 
> This made things work very slowly, because everything tried IPv6
> first because of the default route (until it timed-out).

Shouldn't the link-local address fail source address selection?   It might be interesting to try to figure out exactly how this is happening.   It seems like a fail to try to use an IPv6 default route when you have no valid source address candidates.