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Yeah, it’s unfortunate multicast outside your own LAN isn’t more well supported. It makes sense as it’d require more orchestration above IP. Though I’d argue t
by elcritch 2y ago
Yeah, it’s unfortunate multicast outside your own LAN isn’t more well supported. It makes sense as it’d require more orchestration above IP.
Though I’d argue that 112 bits of random addresses makes the need for global registration largely unnecessary. Similarly to the rest of IPv6, the address is intentionally so large that it allows random IP generation with very low collision probability.
- zamadatix 2y agoGlobal registration is more about "a way to orchestrate who's allowed to send data to the ff00::1234 group" than "I hope we don't accidentally overlap!". It's the same reason we assign IPv6 unicast space to entities even though random generation could work almost all of the time.