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Re: comcast ipv6 PTR

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Cloos)
Thu Oct 17 16:19:20 2013

From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20131015024711.55297.qmail@joyce.lan> (John Levine's message of
 "15 Oct 2013 02:47:11 -0000")
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:17:39 -0400
Cc: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

>>>>> "JL" == John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> writes:

JL> but normal user machines do SLAAC where the low 64 bits of the
JL> address are quasi-random.  To get any sort of DNS you'd need for
JL> the routers to watch when new hosts come on line and somehow tell
JL> the relevant DNS servers what hosts need names.

One of the arguments put forward by those who prefer dhcp6 was that the
dhcp6 server could do that for any leases.  Just like for dhcp4.

For SLAAC, something based on mdns might do?  Ie, a multicast address
where a box can announce that it just joined the lan at a specified v6.

That also might be reasonable for privacy addresses.

-JimC  (just brainstorming)
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James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6




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