On 22/02/13 13:07, David Lamparter wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 01:00:48PM +0000, Simon Kelley wrote:
>> On 22/02/13 12:30, Ted Lemon wrote:
>>> On Feb 21, 2013, at 11:31 PM, Lorenzo Colitti <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think the issue that Michael imagines NPTv6 will address is the
>>> transition period, when the washing machine has two IP addresses, and
>>> the DNS may not have the new address, or may have both addresses, and
>>> he's hoping the gateway will somehow bandage this up.   However, the
>>> gateway's ability to bandage this up is more imagined than real, and
>>> we might as well just fix the underlying problem.
>>
>> The current development release of dnsmasq can act as an authoritative
>> DNS server populated with all hosts on a homenet which it knows about
>> from DHCP. Delegate your domain to it, and ensure  that the TTL
>> configured for DNS is smaller than the deprecated lifetime of addresses,
>> and this problem should never arise.
> 
> This only works with stateful DHCPv6 though?

It works as well for clients which do DHCPv4 and SLAAC. IPv6-only hosts
would have to do stateful DHCPv6, but the DHCPv4 and SLAAC model covers
an awful lot of currently-deployed clients.

The IPv4 addresses can be RFC1918, the DHCPv4 lease is used to give
dnsmasq the MAC address and name of a client. The authoritative DNS
module is configurable to expose global IPv6 addresses and hide RFC1918
IPv4 addresses.

Simon.

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