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Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground
From: Perry Lorier <perry () coders net>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:59:36 +1200
When you can plug your computer in, and automatically (with noclicking) get an IPv6 address,
Router Advertisements let you automatically configure as many IPv6 addresses as you feel like.
> have something tell you where your DNS assist servers,Microsoft had an old expired draft with some default anycast IPv6 nameserver addresses:
fec0:0:0:ffff::1 fec0:0:0:ffff::2 fec0:0:0:ffff::3 -- http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-ipv6-dns-discovery-04.txtWhile this was never accepted by the IETF, I believe windows machines still use these by default if they have no other name servers but do have IPv6 connectivity.
This could be a fairly simple defacto standard if network operators start using it. This is an obvious weak link in the chain at this point tho.
> configure web proxies, once you have DNS you can use the WPAD proxy auto discovery thingamabob.
and solve your dynamic dns problems (as IPv4 set top boxes do today),
Updating your forward/reverse dns via DNS Update messages isn't that uncommon today.
See: http://www.caida.org/publications/presentations/ietf0112/dns.damage.html where hosts are trying to update the root zone with their new names. So you can get from A to D without requiring DHCPv6.
Current thread:
- Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground David W. Hankins (Apr 10)
- DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 12)
- Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground David W. Hankins (Apr 13)
- Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 15)
- Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground Joe Abley (Apr 15)
- Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 15)
- Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground Adrian Chadd (Apr 15)
- Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground David W. Hankins (Apr 10)
- Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground David W. Hankins (Apr 16)
- Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground Leo Bicknell (Apr 17)
- Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground David W. Hankins (Apr 18)
- Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground Perry Lorier (Apr 15)
- Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground Adrian Chadd (Apr 15)
- Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground David W. Hankins (Apr 16)
- Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 16)