Re: IPv6 status on Debian for workstations / DHCP networks?
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 11:06:48AM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 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.
Most people that do that also register static MAC-IPv4 pairs in their
DHCP server and if the machines in question do not use Windows, you can
use EUI64 mappings to provide IPv6 records for hostnames to shell in.
The other way 'round (working RDNS) is not so easy and commonly ignored
in IPv6 deployments.
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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