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Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Franck Martin)
Sun Feb 27 16:26:04 2011
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:25:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>
To: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
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Yes I don't understand why we need DHCPv6, true RD did not have DNS information to pass, but that is fixed, no?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Palmer" <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Sunday, 27 February, 2011 4:06:29 PM
Subject: Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 08:56:33AM -0500, Ray Soucy wrote:
> Mac OS X 10.7 does support RDNSS (RFC 5001) so it is able to get DNS
> server information in an IPv6-only environment. Of course nobody else
> has implemented that yet, making Apple a "special case" host once
> again (I don't even think Cisco supports the option in their T series
> yet).
radvd and rdnssd work together on Linux nicely to provide RDNSS support.
Works a treat.
- Matt
