[96073] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry Lorier)
Sun Apr 15 22:02:27 2007
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:59:36 +1200
From: Perry Lorier <perry@coders.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070413194835.GD23040@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> When you can plug your computer in, and automatically (with no
> clicking) get an IPv6 address,
Router Advertisements let you automatically configure as many IPv6
addresses as you feel like.
> have something tell you where your DNS assist servers,
Microsoft had an old expired draft with some default anycast IPv6
nameserver addresses:
fec0:0:0:ffff::1
fec0:0:0:ffff::2
fec0:0:0:ffff::3
-- http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-ipv6-dns-discovery-04.txt
While this was never accepted by the IETF, I believe windows machines
still use these by default if they have no other name servers but do
have IPv6 connectivity.
This could be a fairly simple defacto standard if network operators
start using it. This is an obvious weak link in the chain at this point
tho.
> configure web proxies,
once you have DNS you can use the WPAD proxy auto discovery thingamabob.
> and solve your dynamic dns problems (as IPv4 set top boxes do today),
Updating your forward/reverse dns via DNS Update messages isn't that
uncommon today.
See:
http://www.caida.org/publications/presentations/ietf0112/dns.damage.html
where hosts are trying to update the root zone with their new names.
So you can get from A to D without requiring DHCPv6.
