From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 7 01:12:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45FE01065670 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 01:12:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marka@isc.org) Received: from drugs.dv.isc.org (drugs.dv.isc.org [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:820:214:22ff:fed9:fbdc]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 081858FC21 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 01:12:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marka@isc.org) Received: from drugs.dv.isc.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by drugs.dv.isc.org (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m271CauD083943; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:12:36 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from marka@drugs.dv.isc.org) Message-Id: <200803070112.m271CauD083943@drugs.dv.isc.org> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen From: Mark Andrews In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:06:25 BST." <20080306230625.5c6df098.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:12:36 +1100 Sender: marka@isc.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:12:41 -0000 > On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:24:08 -0800 > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > You don't set up an IPv6 network. You simply have end nodes that will > > use IPv6 when/if it is available by just making a one-line change in > > rc.conf as opposed to a kernel re-build. > > But to make it (an ip v6 network) useful, I (as an end user) would need > a dns domain for the machines I control, preferable a zone that *I* have > control over. > > In other words; if I have machines with ipv6 adresses that I can reach > globally, but don't have a dns name for them, the usefulness is very > limited. > > Is that challenge solved somehow with ipv6? > It doesn't look like dyndns.org supports ipv6 in their free service. Talk to dyndns.org. From a protocol perspective all this was solved years ago. Windows boxes use UPDATE everyday to do this. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews@isc.org