INET6 -- and why I don't use it

[Mark Andrews]

> On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:24:08 -0800
> Kevin Oberman <oberman at 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
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