[Dnsmasq-discuss] bogus-priv for IPV6

[Simon Kelley]

On 07/09/12 17:47, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> dnsmasq has an option which makes a lot of sense to me: bogus-priv
> which, when specified, has the effect that IPV4 private networks
> 10.0.00/8, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16 are not forwarded since
> these are reserved for local/private networks.
>
> How about extending this option (or add a bogus-priv6 option) to include
> the Unique Local IPV6 Addresses as specified in RFC 4193 --
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4193
>
> All correctly implemented routers, etc are suppose to not route packets
> with these addresses but ... well, people designed/implemented those and
> people make mistakes.
>
> I do not consider this a high priority item.
>

Agreed that it's a good idea. I think we (the list) had a discussion 
about this before, and it wandered off into a long digression about 
exactly which address ranges should be blocked but nothing happened.

Simon.