Re: Is there agreement on ddns (or any such) with autoconfigured hosts?
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:41:09PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:21:19PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
> > >>>>> "Wouter" == Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:
> > Wouter> Not that I know of. However, seen the fact that MAC
> > Wouter> addresses don't usually change, I'd say it's fair to assume
> > Wouter> your autoconfigured hosts won't, either -- unless you use
> > Wouter> the privacy extensions, which I personally don't.
> >
> > Wouter> I manage them as if they were configured statically.
> >
> > Let's say that I show up at your house with my laptop.
>
> Right. You pay the plane ticket, though ;-)
>
> > I turn it on, to a RS, and see your RA. I now have FOO:MYMAC as my IP.
>
> Right.
>
> > I want to update MYMAC.FOO.ip6.arpa. to PTR to marajade.dasblinkenled.org,
>
> Uh, well, that's all nice, but *I* don't want you to. You're still on my
> network -- at best, I'd allow you to update MAC.FOO.ip6.arpa. to
> something.guest.grep.be. Or do it for you.
That's what came up on the namedroppers list. They tended to agree
that there isn't a reason to trust casual users with access to the
reverse lookup database.
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