I have a home LAN with a mix of Debian Linux machines, Raspberry Pis, Beaglebone Blacks and Android running termux.
All of the Pis and Beaglebones are headless so I use ssh a lot for connecting to them. I use dnsmasq (on my main Asus router) to provide IPV4 LAN DNS and DHCP. Thus all my Pis and so on have their names available to me to connect to them, as do other devices like a printer etc. If I moved wholly to IPV6 how could I provide the same sort of 'access by name' for the LAN? The Asus router provides standard IPV6 services already by giving all my systems with IPV6 addresses from the block provided by my ISP, but I don't see how to get systems to have a name. I know I probably could put the names into the Asus router manually (in the dnsmasq configuration there) but that seems rather clumsy compared with everything working automatically as it does with IPV4. -- Chris Green ยท
