Re: IP sent by DNSv6 Server

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 03:58:16PM -0800, Kenyon Ralph wrote:
> On 2013-02-25T23:53:29+0000, Hélder Pinheiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am trying to build an IPv6 stateless server with RADVD + Dribbler DHCPv6 .
> > When using stateless IP assignment , DHCPv6 server should provide the DNS
> > server IP to all hosts, which in this case is the same of the server's IP.
> > My doubt is: Should the IP sent to all hosts be the Server's link local or
> > the global IP?
> It should be a global address. Most programs don't really know how to
> deal with a link-local address in resolv.conf, even if you do include
> the interface part. Besides, you might not even be able to specify the
> interface in the dibbler configuration; not sure the DHCPv6
> specification allows for it either.

eglibc deals with it just fine. OpenWRT uses the link-local address by default
and it just works with network-manager on the client or rdnssd.

pkern@spike ~ % grep wlan /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver fe80::4ee6:76ff:fe51:ae30%wlan0

(Not sure if that one came out of RDNSS or DHCPv6 because I configured both.)

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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