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Re: IPv6 Confusion


From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews () isc org>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:21:25 +1100


In message <14076.1234917735 () turing-police cc vt edu>, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu 
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:55:30 +1100, Mark Andrews said:
    I solve it by give the machine a name.  Adding a KEY record
    at that name to the DNS, the private part the machine knows.

I think the issue is that the machine in question may not know its own hostna
me
to start, much less that dnssec is in use, or that a private key is supposed 
to
be remembered on the machine.  So there's a bit of a bootstrapping problem
there.

        There are lots of bootstrap issues.  
 
Of course, you can skip over that issue by letting the DHCP server do
the DNS updates as a proxy for the just-DHCP'ed machine, but that has
other issues...

        Indeeded.
 
(or just pre-populate the DNS with DHCP-2001-9A98-D247-{5more}.ISP.com and be
done with it like many places do for IPv4)

        Which still leaves the problem of how does the machine get its
        name in a trusted manner.

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