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		bboreham 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tailscale is pretty useful Nit: the host is not picked at random, but according to the RFC3484 algorithm. Since people typically don’t believe me about this, here it is from someone who has done a lot of networking programming: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/01/03/getaddrinfo-with-roun...

9dev 10 months ago [–]

Arghh. I want to love IPv6, but they really work hard against it, don't they.

Thanks, I didn't know this!

bboreham 10 months ago | [–]

Even better: although the reason for the algorithm is IPv6, all mainstream implementations do it on IPv4 also.

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