[141835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 and DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Palmer)
Sun Jun 12 11:44:37 2011
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 01:44:02 +1000
From: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
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On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 08:59:50AM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> However, it would be logical to extend the DHCPv6 protocol to allow for
> registration of the workstation address in DNS by the DHCPv6 management
> server to be requested (similar to DHCPv4).
I don't believe we were talking about DHCPv6, we were talking about SLAAC.
And I *still* think it's a better idea for the client to be registering
itself in DNS; the host knows what domain(s) it should be part of, and hence
which names refer to itself and should be updated with it's new address.
- Matt
