[141829] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 and DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arturo Servin)
Sun Jun 12 09:27:55 2011
From: Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=sg6s+0HPFjRDgAdcHjhpx9rXiiw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:27:43 -0300
To: Fabio Mendes <fabio.mendes@bsd.com.br>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12 Jun 2011, at 09:38, Fabio Mendes wrote:
> 2011/6/11 Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
>=20
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> - Matt
>>=20
>=20
> Thanks Matt.
>=20
> 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 ?
>=20
> 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
