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simoncion • last Thursday at 10:28 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> ULA are useless for most practical purposes because of the source address selection rules.

/me glances over at my LAN which has been happily using ULAs for local communications and GUAs for global for the past I don't even know how long.

_Sure_.


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andix • last Thursday at 10:56 PM

The problem is real. In IP discovery GUA is prioritized over ULA. And if the GUA goes away or changes regularly it leads to connectivity issues.

ULA work well in combination with DNS though.

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