I think the question he was angling after how it is found in an autoconfiguring network using stateless address autoconfiguration. i.e. you don't know the server name/IPv6 address in advance.
There's no agreed best solution right now. Windows XP implemented well-known site locals for this, though site locals are now deprecated. You could use (stateless DHCPv6). Or perhaps Router Advertisements will be extended to carry DNS resolver info. There are (personal, probably) drafts on this in the IETF dnsop WG. Tim On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:05:39AM +0100, Ed Kapitein wrote: > Hi Lawrence, > > I can't give you answers to all your questions, but to tell a (linux/unix) > host which DNS server to use, you would enter the ipv6 address in the > /etc/resolv.conf file. > > And then i doesn't matter if the DNS server is on a different subnet, as > long as you can route traffic to that subnet. > > I hope that this will help a little bit. > > Kind regards, > @ > > > >In a dual stack network, a dual stack node can find your DNS servers via > >configured IPv4 addresses, and get both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses back > >for dual stack targets, after which IPv6 traffic can proceed. > > > >How does an IPv6-only node find the DNS server(s). I assume this is > >where the new anycast addresses come in. Will the IPv6 only node try > >to connect to the magic IPv6 DNS anycast address, and the "closest" > >IPv6 capable DNS server will respond? > > > >How does that DNS node know to respond to that anycast address? > >Do you manually assign the IPv6 DNS anycast address to every DNS > >server? > > > >Would this still work if the "closest" DNS server was beyond your router? > >Can the DNS anycast address route out through your firewall? > > > >Is there some other way to manually specify the addresses of your > >preferred DNS servers on an IPv6-only node? > > > >Can you block the DNS anycast address from going beyond your > >gateway to insure that internal nodes will get your internal DNS server, > >and not some extenal one? > > > >Lawrence Hughes > >CTO, InfoWeapons Corporation > >Cebu, Philippines > ~ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The IPv6 Users Mailing List > Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tim/::1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
