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Re: Temporary IPv6 addresses vs. netgroups



Hi,

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 07:37:02PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
[..]
> To be even more emphatic about that, one thing that we should be
> doing is shipping NetBSD (and its packages) to select rational address
> types by default - by all means allow sysadmins (or users) to alter
> the defaults, but the defaults should be rational.
[..]
> But it can have an application say "stable address if possible please"
> or "temporary address if possible please", and once we have a mechanism
> (however it ends up looking) to permit that, that's exactly what we should
> be doing.

+1

(nothing more to be said, so please excuse the high quote-to-new-text
ratio :-) )

gert
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