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I just pretend to know what I'm doing.
- A tech nerd who loves cute adorable things!
- An IPv6 advocate who understands IPv4
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How did I become a bit proficient with K8s? I was tortured with issues
At first I though OneUptime had some useful blog posts and guides. Then I realized they're just playing the SEO game by generating thousands of articles to appear in as many search results as possible. It's rather annoying.
@geerlingguy it's also the worst time cause you have to pray that your ISP overlord allows you to use your own hardware 🙃
I was having a good time making hierarchical IPv6 subnets... Then I had to deal with the IPv4 subnets 😢

@artlog @adingbatponder That makes sense to me and I like the solution. Without local-link you're stuck running something else on top to deal with addresses eg SLAAC for ULAs.

Always stinks when there's just one kinds dump thing standing between a working and nonworking setup. Tho I can understand their reasoning for not supporting it, I agree it's kinds dumb not to.

@adingbatponder To clarify, required as in they are automatically added, not required for IPv6 to function. They are the automatically added fe80:: addresses on interfaces.
@adingbatponder An important thing to note here is that IPv6 local-links are required, unlike IPv4, and actually live in interface scopes. This allows one local-link address to live on multiple interface without breaking things.

@adingbatponder @artlog Basically firefox, like most browsers, doesn't support the "odd" IPv6 local-link syntax which requires specifying an interface scope (eg %enp0s25) in the URL thus the browser can't connect. This probably stems from the URL encoding mechanism to handle special characters.

While the browser could technically support it, as curl already does, they've decided not to at this time due to it being a small edge case which would take a lot of work to fix.

@artlog Can you provide any insight into why local-links are being used here?

To me, using ULA would be the better solution.

Another day of LLM being a decent tool at one moment and completely useless at another.