On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 05:48:28AM -0500, Martin Millnert wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 21:16 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > I was aware of the existence of rDNS-in-RA, but I didn't know what tool (if > > any) on Linux handled it. Looks like rdnssd is the way to go. Do you > > happen to know what radvd magic is required to send out RAs with the rDNS > > servers in, so I can test it (and avoid having to run DHCPv6 at home)? > > The radvd package on squeeze comes with two examples > (in /usr/share/doc/radvd/examples/ IIRC). The longer one of those has a > RDNSS snippet towards the end of the file that I used today in radvd. > (and tcpdump printed the info with the verbose flag, but I haven't tried > it further)
That'll be it... I'm still using the radvd in lenny on my home server. Sold! > > > 4) eventually and finally complete support for auto-configuration of > > > all IPv6-only network settings, which I admit is far from trivial. > > > > I'm up for handling anything that d-i handles for IPv4, pretty much, but I'm > > not planning on going all out with every possible bit of network > > configuration (SIP servers? Naaaah). > > Oh, that's not what I meant. :) I meant address/gateway/resolver only, > but the hard part being using a variety of means to find them. Ah, I see. I'm definitely planning on supporting all autoconfiguration methods that are (a) standardised, (b) have software support in Debian, and (c) don't completely conflict with each other. Being a long time reader of NANOG, I know the range of options and how no two people can seem to agree on any of them being the preferred option... - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110122190719.gw3...@hezmatt.org
