Re: IPv6 status on Debian for workstations / DHCP networks?
On 08/07/13 10:56, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:14:54 +0200
> Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au> wrote:
>
>> For IPv4, if somebody doesn't want NM, they can just put
>> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>> in their interfaces file and it works for just about any network.
>> Since wheezy, the line "send host-name = gethostname();" was added to
>> dhclient.conf, Debian machines have also been automatically added to
>> dynamic DNS wherever the DHCP server supports it[1]
>> My feeling is that IPv6 doesn't currently give this type of
>> "one-liner" plug and play experience and given that people are
>> accustomed to this convenience, they will feel deterred by IPv6 if it
>> takes any of these things away from them.
> It's just people usually don't use DHCP with IPv6 because there's SLAAC
> which doesn't require any setup at all (maximum you'd want is to
> install rdnssd).
>
It only "just works" like that if the organisation has chosen not to use
DHCPv6
However, SLAAC doesn't support dynamic DNS updates as far as I know.
Windows is also using DHCPv6 for obtaining DNS servers. That leaves me
feeling that many people will choose the DHCPv6 route and Debian will
need to work easily in those environments.
Many users have a requirement for hostnames from dynamic DNS. e.g. many
companies put a hostname sticker on their PCs and when somebody rings
the helpdesk, they give the hostname and the support engineer can make a
remote connection to the desktop. There are other things like backup
scripts that depend on hostnames.
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