Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>> while I'd like to use temporary addresses for most of my outgoing
>> connections, I've got some server(s) where I need to connect to for
>> long periods of time for monitoring.
>>
>> Therefor I added the option IPv6Temporary Address to ssh which allows
>> specifying the preference for some host.
>>
>> If this sounds interesting to someone, I'll clean up the code a bit in
>> order to commit it to the tree.
> I don't understand what you mean at all. Do the servers have permanent
> addresses in DNS? What do you need to change, and why? Is this about
> outgoing source addr selection on such machines/
I wondered the same thing; I think it must mean to avoid temporary addresses
for the local side. Is there a programmatic way to state that requirement to
the kernel? If so, it's news to me. There ought to be though.
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