Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/17/2011 01:15 PM, James Knott wrote:
> The random address will change, though I don't know when, other than rebooting does it.  However, why do they insist on calling it "private", when it's not.  It might be called a "privacy" address, as it makes it more difficult to trace, but it's still a public address that can 
> be reached from the public internet.  A private address is one that exists only on the local lan, such as the RFC1918 IPv4 addresses.  The link local IPv6 addresses can serve the same function, as can other limited scope IPv6 addresses. 

I agree about the "private" thing, but don't make anything
of it.  The fellow writing the note knows the difference.

Apparently OSX Lion will change it's "privacy" address once
per day, and keep stale ones around for a while.  Maybe this
is to handle those really long round-trip packet time routes? :-)

As an aside, I once worked on a project that had round-trip
packet times measured in hours.  We used UDP and hoped for
the best.  Yes, SuSE was there...

Regards,
Lew

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