The RG is sending RFC5006 but another device, in my case, in the local
network is the DHCPv4 and local DNS server.

John
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On 9/10/11 9:34 AM, "Frank Bulk" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Exactly. If the DNS server(s) handed out by the RG are configurable, then
>one should be able to configure the IPv4 and/or IPv6 DNS servers.
>
>Frank
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
>Of Jari Arkko
>Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 12:59 PM
>To: Brzozowski, John
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [homenet] DNS and IPV6 within the home
>
>I'm with you with similar setup. But I think this is mostly about being
>able
>to configure your border router with (a) the right DNS server address for
>DHCPv4 and (b) the right DNS server address for RFC 5006/DHCPv6. Is your
>problem that you don't get to do (b)? Or do you skip (a) as well, and then
>rely on local multicast naming discovery?
>
>Jari
>
>On 09.09.2011 20:29, Brzozowski, John wrote:
>> Wanted to share something here to get some feedback and to determine if
>> this is something that is in scope for HOMENET.
>>
>> Consider the following:
>>
>> * dual stack home network
>> * private IPv4
>> * global IPv6
>> * local DNS that resolves local hosts, this data is not available
>> authoritatively on the Internet
>>
>> My home router supports RFC5006 (not sure the RFC was revised when the
>> router firmware was developed).  There is an IPv6 DNS server configured
>>on
>> the router which is transmitted in the router advertisements.
>>
>> A host on the network supports RFC5006.
>>
>> When the host attempts lookups for local resources using the global IPv6
>> DNS server address it recurses to the Internet and never gets the answer
>> it expects for the local network resources.  The client resolver also
>> never attempts to contact the local, private IPv4 DNS server since the
>> IPv6 DNS is technically responding.  Explicit DNS queries to the local,
>> private DNS servers work but this not really usable.
>>
>> Ultimately I had to disable DNS over IPv6 to ensure local and Internet
>> resources are resolvable.
>>
>> In this case the local IPv4 DNS server is a separate server, frankly I
>>am
>> not sure if having them be the same device ie the home router would
>>make a
>> difference.  I suppose this would depend on the router's DNS
>>capabilities.
>>
>> It seems to me that this situation is bound to crop more up as IPv6
>> deployments increase.
>>
>> John
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