Re: Is there agreement on ddns (or any such) with autoconfigured hosts?
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:29:52PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:06:31AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> > I've read many threads on the DNS including an extended one from 1999.
> > As far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to have been a consensus
> > about how to handle dynamic updates to DNS from autoconfigured hosts.
> > It isn't important to me that I have reverse lookups, nor do I even
> > care if I have to use stateful configuration. I'm just not seeing all
> > of the pieces.
> >
> > o Is there a DHCPv6 server running on Debian?
>
> Not that I know of.
>
> > o Is there a dynamic DNS update mechanism is place for
> > stateless-autoconfigured hosts?
>
> Not that I know of. However, seen the fact that MAC addresses don't
> usually change, I'd say it's fair to assume your autoconfigured hosts
> won't, either -- unless you use the privacy extensions, which I
> personally don't.
Fair enough. I've known that that was one option.
> I manage them as if they were configured statically.
I've always used DHCP to configure addresses, including static ones.
It makes it a heck of a lot easier to manage the network. DHCP's
MAC->IP mappings are a boon.
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