[111469] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Fri Feb 6 08:53:30 2009
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:52:22 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Paul Timmins <paul@telcodata.us>
In-Reply-To: <498B72E7.5090506@telcodata.us>
Cc: 'NANOG list' <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Paul Timmins wrote:
> John Schnizlein wrote:
> >
> > Maybe upgrades, service packs and updates will make them capable of using
> > DHCPv6 for useful functions such as finding the address of an available name
> > server by the time IPv6-only networks are in operation.
>
> And if not, hardcode em. It's not like your usual nameserver will be behind a
> nat anyway, and generally, a DNS server is a DNS server.
Er, no, open recursive resolvers are a very bad idea.
Tony.
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