Re: IPv6 and DNS
--- On Tue, 7/12/11, Laurence Hurst <L.A.Hurst@lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
> From: Laurence Hurst <L.A.Hurst@lboro.ac.uk>
> Subject: IPv6 and DNS
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 5:54 AM
> Hi folks,
>
> I notice a couple of other IPv6 related questions on this
> list so I hope this isn't too far of topic...
>
> I currently have an IPv4-only network (192.168.0.0/24
> behind a NAT firewall/router) at home which includes a
> variety of systems (Windows, Debian, OSX and some embedded
> devices). All of these devices support IPv4 DHCP so the
> least painful and most reliable method of configuring them
> with hostnames has been to run my own DHCP server and DNS
> with static mappings for most of the devices (I do not allow
> dynamic updating of the DNS) including reverse DNS.
>
> I am curious, if I wanted to translate my IPv4
> configuration into an IPv6 world;
> * I know there's a lot of talk about IPv6's
> wonderful auto-configuration eliminating the need for DHCP
> but how does this work with a static DNS setup?
> * Would I need to use DHCP6 and DNS, or
> auto-configuration and allow dynamic DNS updating (assuming
> IPv6's router discovery allows the clients to discover and
> update the DNS themselves)?
> * Would I have to trust the clients to update their
> own DNS records (I don't at the moment)?
> * In the DHCP-less world, how would clients
> "discover" the local DNS suffix (e.g. (fictitous)
> "internal.home.my.tld")?
>
> As I'm sure you can see I've got a whole load of questions
> and no compelling answers so I hope that some of the well
> informed folks on this list might be willing to point me in
> something approximating the right direction!
>
> Cheers,
> Laurence
>
>
And I'd like to add an IPV6 question to which I have not found an answer . . .
How is it going to work on DIALUP!!! At least I have a good internal hardware modem . . .
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