[email protected] wrote: > [-- text/plain, size 0.7K, charset utf-8, 20 lines, encoding quoted-printable > --] > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 12:51:19PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > I have a home LAN with a mix of Debian Linux machines, Raspberry Pis, > > Beaglebone Blacks and Android running termux. > > [...] > > > 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. > > AFAIU, if dnsmasq is providing the IPv4 addresses (via DHCP) and linking > them to names (via DNS), i don't see any reason it couldn't work with > IPv6, too. Perhaps you need some knob somewhere to enable AAAA records > or something, Perhaps dnsmasq has to dole out v6 addresses via DHCPv6 > to be able to pull that off. > I'm feeling my way with this having only just started playing with IPV6 but, as I understand it, the default set-up (which is provided by the router) doesn't use DHCPV6. The systems on the LAN are given their IPV6 addresses by the router (using SLAAC?). Thus there is no opportunity for them to say 'my name is <hostname>, please give me an IP address'.`
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