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by zamadatix 1044 days ago
It's not uncommon to load-balance or NAT over fe80:: link-local addresses for internal service delivery for your use case. Some services are nicer, allowing DNS SRV records or the like, but many require the middle-man.

Some ask "why bother with IPv6 if I'm still going to do that then?" and generally the two key advantages are the fe80:: address co-exists with the unique public address of each box so you don't need outbound masquerade NAT pools and the fe80:: address space is enormous+interface specific so you don't have to worry about unique internal space or conflicts with other networks. Or, if you have a static IPv6 assignment in a more "proper" hosted deployment instead of a dynamic home deployment, you can of course just do stateless NAT to the public addresses without worrying about IP scarcity.