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On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Grant Edwards |
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> <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> How do you specify a link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? |
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>> For example, I can ping/telnet/ssh to fe80::02c0:4eff:fe07:0005%eth1, |
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>> but I can't figure out how to put that address in /etc/hosts so I can |
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>> access it by name. |
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> Just put the address without the %iface. Then you must specify the |
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> interface in your program, for example: |
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> in /etc/hosts: |
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> fe80::02c0:4eff:fe07:0005 foobar |
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> ping6 -I eth0 foobar |
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> should work. |
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Works here with ping6. Sucks, though, because most network clients |
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don't allow you to specify the interface, so those won't work. |
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>> Similarly, how do you enter an ipv6 link-local address in Firefox or |
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>> Opera? curl seems to accept such an address and return the proper web |
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>> page, but I can't find any interactive browser (graphical or |
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>> command-line) that will accept a link-local address. So far I've |
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>> tried Firefox Opera w3m links. According to RFC2732 it looks like the |
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>> format should be |
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>> http://[fe80::02c0:4eff:fe07:0005%eth1]:80/ |
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> % in a URL must be escaped, so you probably need to replace the % |
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> symbol with %25. Try this: |
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> http://[fe80::02c0:4eff:fe07:0005%25eth1]:80/ |
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> I didn't try it. Good luck. :) |
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Doesn't seem to work with wget. Don't have a GUI web browser on IPv6 |
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to play with here. |
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