On 29 Jan 2010, at 17:07, David Prall wrote:

> So XP doesn't support IPv6 DHCP, nor do they support IPv6 DNS. Not sure
> about the macintosh. 

and I thought I was being clever pointing fec0:0:0:ffff::1, 2 and 3 to real 
DNSv6 servers and finding the "add dns" from within netsh only to be thwarted 
by an XP resolver that doesn't support IPV6 properly.


On 29 Jan 2010, at 19:09, Alan Buxey wrote:

> Hi,
>> OK so looking at/listening to various recommendations, when allocating IPV6 
>> addresses, stateless auto-configuration with DHCPv6 used to dish out the DNS 
>> servers and domain looks the most appealing. Since the IOS version we are 
>> using on our 6500s doesn't support IPV6 DHCP relaying (12.2(18)SXF13) I 
>> tried to set up a test using the 6500 itself to serve the DNS and domain 
>> information but I cannot get it to work. When I use the following 
>> configuration the clients are configured with appropriate v6 IPs and can get 
>> out into the IPV6 Internet, but no DNS or domain information is received. 
>> Turning on "debug ipv6 DHCP" yields no entries in the log at all for either 
>> an iMac or an XP laptop: am I missing some configuration?
> 
> 
> DHCPv6 and stateless configuration are pretty much still very messy right now.
> yes, DHCPv6 would be a direct replacement for clients on the v6 landscape but
> not many clients support it.... 
> 
I'm starting to realise that...

> worse, stateless configuration, whilst in a way elegant, hardly anything gets
> handed over to it....eg DNS or NTP information . theres also no way to hand 
> over
> any encrpytion or seed things eg for SeND - we've been in chats with people
> about getting some nice extensions into the stateless RFC - it'd be 
> good/useful
> to have these things sorted.
> 
RFC 5006 looks promising, although it does seem to only mention DNS servers. 



> ..now...what are those IPv6 youtube addresses, I've got an hour to burn ;-)
> alan
wahoo!


Ta.


Michael
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