why rtsold ?

Victor Sudakov vas at mpeks.tomsk.su
Mon Oct 8 17:00:45 UTC 2018


Anton Yuzhaninov wrote:
> On 9/29/18 10:20 PM, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > When running FreeBSD as an IPv6 host im SLAAC mode, is
> > "rtsold_enable=YES" really necessary? I did not enable rtsold and IPv6
> > still works fine only with 
> 
> rtsold is needed to write DNS server address from RDNSS RA option to
> /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> man rtsold
> /-R

On my test IPv6-only host, /etc/resolv.conf was successfully created
without any explicit "rtsold_enable=YES". 

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