Re: IPv6 temporary address and SSH

Michael Richardson <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Nov 2023 21:10:41 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.network
Message-ID	<511056.1701115841@dyas>

Greg Troxel <[email protected]> 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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