Dimitris Sgourdas
Dimitris Sgourdas
> @sgourdas Neither seems a good option to me. Why don't we present the full list of IPs to the users and let them find out which one works best...
> @sgourdas If you can do some research, find out the peculiarity of `169.254.x.x` addresses and substantiate why they must be excluded from the IP addresses that we consider, then...
> > @sgourdas If you can do some research, find out the peculiarity of `169.254.x.x` addresses and substantiate why they must be excluded from the IP addresses that we consider,...
@veloman-yunkan main sources of my response were [this](https://serverfault.com/questions/427018/what-is-this-ip-address-169-254-169-254) and [this](https://www.whatismyip.com/169-254-ip-address/#:~:text=Why%20can't%20169.254%20be,the%20link%2Dlocal%20address%20range.).
@veloman-yunkan is this enough info to justify such a change?
@veloman-yunkan do you happen to know what is the reason we are excluding IPv6 link locals but not doing the same for IPv4 currently?
> > @veloman-yunkan do you happen to know what is the reason we are excluding IPv6 link locals but not doing the same for IPv4 currently? > > No, I...
@kelson42 for implementation purposes, if the `.portable` is present, can I assume that the packager will have also created the `data` directory as well?
Since `getDataDirectory()` will need to be modified, so as to not complicate things with libkiwix, I will wait a bit on this until #1169 is merged.
Ok, I will start parallel work on this