[6bone] DNS servers

[John Fraizer]

I think he's talking about assigning the host it's DNS resolvers in a
dynamic (IE; DHCP) manner in much the same way that a radius server does
for a IPv4 dialup client.


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On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Bill Manning wrote:

> % Hello,
> % No I mean I quite sure it is possible to give DNS to every hosts by entering IP address for each of them (like in IPv4). True ?
> 
> 	not sure I understand the question then.  clearly one can create 
> 	DNS zone files that map v6 addresses to names and names to v6 addresses
> 
> % 
> % But my real question is: are the router able to advertise to hosts what are DNS addresse's ? It's what I've understood by reading Cisco documentation...
> 
> 	maybe.  this maybe something like the DHCP option to write the 
> 	/etc/resolv.conf file, if it exists.
> 
> 
> % 
> % 
> % -----Message d'origine-----
> % De : Bill Manning [mailto:bmanning@ISI.EDU]
> % Envoyé : mercredi 5 mars 2003 18:04
> % À : BEGIN, Thomas
> % Cc : 6bone@ISI.EDU
> % Objet : Re: [6bone] DNS servers
> % 
> % 
> % % HI,
> % % I'm wondering what's the way for specifying to a host DNS server's addresses.
> % % I mean are these addresses necessary (from DNS servers) stocked in each individual host (as it used to be for IPv4)? or is there a way to give this information to routers ? 
> % % I came to this question after reading the cisco's documentation about IPv6 commands (http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122t/122t2/ipv6/ftipv6c.htm) which specifies about giving to routers DNS server's addresses.
> % % 
> % % Thanks
> % % 
> % % Thomas
> % % _______________________________________________
> % 
> % 	you mean like this:
> % 
> % search ip6.int ep.net
> % nameserver 198.32.2.10
> % nameserver 2001:478:6:0:230:48ff:fe22:6a29
> % nameserver 198.32.6.11
> % nameserver 3ffe:805::2d0:b7ff:fee8:c4d9
> % 
> % 
> % --bill
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