Re: IPv6 and DNS
2011/6/11 Matthew Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org The router isn't assigning an address, it's merely telling everyone on the segment what the local prefix and default route is. As such, there's no reason why the router should try to register a DNS entry. On the other hand, the host could (and should) register it's address with whatever DNS server handles it's name. The protocol for such is already standardised and should be independent of IPv4/IPv6. - Matt Thanks Matt. I was thinking about something like this, it looks the natural way to go, but isn't too dangerous allow hosts to update entries (even if it's their own) in an DNS server ? I preferred to believe that a router would do this because routers are considered to be more reliable than a hosts. In the other hand, I also recognize that this could put a lot of weight in routers' CPU processing. Do you mind to point me out where can I find infos about this protocol that is being standardised ? Fábio
IPv6 and DNS
Hi guys, Firstly, sorry if this may sound too newbie for the list. Reading the discussion about dhcpv6 vs RAs, this question just popped in my mind. It seems that most of IPv6 addressing for hosts will be choosed using EUI-64 method. Considering that no one (specially endusers) will bother to memorize an IPv6 prefix plus a mac address, integration between DNS servers and routers/dhcpv6 servers will be crucial. For dhcp there is already a mechanism for updating names in the DNS server for dynamically assigned IPs. I suppose it will be used (use some modifications) for IPv6. However, I never heard of anything similar for routers (in the case of autoconfigured addresses). Are there any dns servers that support updates from routers ?
Re: Experience with Open Source load balancers?
We used Pound (http://www.apsis.ch/pound) on a couple of FreeBSD servers some years ago. Configuration is simple and the software has lots of good and interesting features. The only problem was that always our traffic had a spike, serving pages through it became a nightmare. Eventually we ended up buying a couple of Foundry/Brocade load balancers (Server Iron). I don't know what is software's current development state but if they managed to solve those performance issues it would be an interesting choice, if you really want to go that way. HTH
