Site-local addresses were deprecated in RFC 3879 (September 2004) and
RFC 4193 (October 2005) replaced them with Unique Local Address. ULAs
are part of the global range but supposedly unique to an organization.
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on your host. Link-local addresses ("fe80...") are generated from the MAC
address of the local network adaptor, and are not guaranteed to be unique.
- \li Site-local: Addresses that are local to the site / private network
- (e.g., the company intranet). Site-local addresses ("fec0...") are
- usually distributed by the site router, and are not guaranteed to be
- unique outside of the local site.
-
\li Global: For globally routable addresses, such as public servers on the
Internet.