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using ULA for 'hidden' v6 devices?
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> The potential advantage of ULAs is that you have a stable internal
> addressing scheme within the homenet, while your ISP-assigned prefix
> may change over time. You run ULAs alongside your PA prefix. ULAs are
> not used for host-based NAT. The implication is that all homenet
> devices carry a ULA, though whether some do not also have a global PA
> address is open for debate.
Yeah, there's some advantage to that. Have a "corp.foo.com" domain that is the native domain for the internal machines while the foo.com domain that is visible to the outside world has outside accessible addressing.
> There's a suggestion that ULAs could be used to assist security to some
> extent, allowing ULA to ULA communications as they are known to be
> within the homenet.
Not sure how that assists security unless you simply want to limit site-site communications to your ULA ranges only, then sure. In practice, sites often back each other up and you can have external traffic for site A using site B for its internet access, but that's not a big deal, just need to keep your internal and external traffic separated which any good admin will do as a matter of course, anyway.