Re: [81attendees] Mac OS X on the "ietf-v6only" network?

"Carlos M. Martinez" <carlos@lacnic.net> Mon, 25 July 2011 16:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [81attendees] Mac OS X on the "ietf-v6only" network?
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Also, I don't know if they are using the RDNSS option for SLAAC here in
the ietf-ipv6-only network. If so, there is a small daemon for Linux,
which works as a plugin for the "resolvconf" subsystem that listens for
RDNSS advertisements and configures your /etc/resolv.conf accordingly.

cheers!

Carlos

On 7/25/11 10:47 AM, Mattia Rossi wrote:
> On 25/07/11 09:15, Tim Chown wrote:
>> I selected the IPv6 only network just now using MacOS X Lion.
>>
>> It appears that Lion has autoconfigured a SLAAC address (in that the
>> address doesn't look like one assigned from a DHCP pool), and a
>> privacy address, and has got DNS resolvers via DHCPv6 (just the two
>> v6 resolvers, where DHCPv4 gives two IPv4 and two IPv6 resolver
>> addresses).
>>
>
> This is an "interesting" solution.. Anyhow, how do I get a DNS on my
> Linux where I don't have dhcpv6 because it's not considered stable or
> even working?
>
> I guess I'll see you at the homenet WG..
>
> Mat
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