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by bigfatkitten 65 days ago
If you’re dual stack, your OS will prefer IPv4 to ULA and ULA won’t be used at all, and so the extra config overhead of deploying ULA is pointless.
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It'll prefer ULAs when connecting to hosts without A records. Programs will use ULAs if you connect to an IP literal, or if connecting to the A records fails. Also, Linux/glibc will prefer ULAs if you have a ULA assigned to the machine, and so will anything using the update to RFC 6724. So "ULA won't be used at all" is definitely not correct.