Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:12:36 +1100 From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it Message-ID: <200803070112.m271CauD083943@drugs.dv.isc.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:06:25 BST." <20080306230625.5c6df098.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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> On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:24:08 -0800 > Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> 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
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