Re: IPv6 and DNS

[Arturo Servin <arturo.servin () gmail com>]

On 12 Jun 2011, at 09:38, Fabio Mendes wrote:

> 2011/6/11 Matthew Palmer <mpalmer () hezmatt org>
>
> > The router isn't assigning an address, it's merely telling everyone on the
> > segment what the local prefix and default route is.  As such, there's no
> > reason why the router should try to register a DNS entry.
> >
> > On the other hand, the host could (and should) register it's address with
> > whatever DNS server handles it's name.  The protocol for such is already
> > standardised and should be independent of IPv4/IPv6.
> >
> > - Matt
>
> Thanks Matt.
>
> I was thinking about something like this, it looks the natural way to go,
> but isn't too dangerous allow hosts to update entries (even if it's their
> own)  in an DNS server ?
>
> I preferred to believe that a router would do this because routers are
> considered to be more reliable than a hosts. In the other hand, I also
> recognize that this could put a lot of weight in routers' CPU processing.


        Routers route packets, otherwise they would be called registrars or something like that.

-as