Doc: Remove the section about IPv6 site-local addresses

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.

Change-Id: I7de033f80b0e4431b7f1ffff13f98d2124c5cffc
Reviewed-by: Martin Smith <martin.smith@digia.com>
Reviewed-by: Topi Reiniö <topi.reinio@digia.com>
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Thiago Macieira 2015-08-11 16:45:29 -07:00
parent 6d8c7a61f5
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@ -775,11 +775,6 @@ QString QHostAddress::toString() const
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.