On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 09:45:55PM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: > On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 15:12 -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: > > They exist, but I haven't seen them. I'd run them. I see no way to do > > DDNS without state. I also see lots of reasons why I want state in my > > address configuration, something which the v6-purists never have > > comprehended. > > (It's because they mostly build routers and never think about > > applications) > > Well, you can actually say to some OS's to take the /64 from the RA and > append ::42 for instance and use that. One can also script that. > > On linux just replicate the same IPv6 address as a /128 on all > interfaces and bingo it always gets used, because of the rather weak > source address selection routines.
Agreed. Still, I'd rather make it more determinstic. A client *could* select an address some other way as with the privacy extensions. My XP test setup did exactly that. > > I know of no feasible way to do DDNS for stateless-autoconfiguration > > hosts. > > The problem is the key for doing DDNS in the first place :) > I once cooked up this which solves the DDNS part: > http://unfix.org/~jeroen/archive/Windows_DynamicDNS_Update.zip > > Which is the Windows variant for: > http://ops.ietf.org/dns/dynupd/secure-ddns-howto.html I'm looking to do something more akin to the stateless autoconfig. If I need to install a key, then I might as well go to the trouble of configuring DHCPv6. > > > This is a problem I'd like to solve, so that I can do wavesec.org on > > ipv6. > > What is the exact problem, as I am missing a large detail of it :) > The above skips the DHCP server. I, too, am unclear what part of the problem is unsolvable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
