[radvd-devel-l] searching the list / DDNS

[Jeff Sadowski]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Reuben Hawkins <reubenhwk at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Jeff Sadowski <jeff.sadowski at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> I didn't see a mailing list FAQ so I hope its ok to ask a simple question
>> like
>> How do I search the mailing list to find say DDNS
>> would I run a google query for "site:lists.litech.org DDNS"
>> this didn't find anything and I'd bet someone has asked how to do that
>> before.
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>> If not that is my question can radvd do ddns(Dynamic DNS)
>> I'd like that when a host gets a ipv6 address from my radvd pool to
>> update my bind entries for that computer.
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> AFAIK, there's nothing like that in radvd.  However, this sound like a
> problem solved by mDNS (multicast DNS, also called Bonjour by Apple).  On
> Linux, avahi-daemon does this.  After installing you'll need to update your
> /etc/nsswitch.conf with this line...
>
Ok thank you.
Is there any place that radvd logs which computers pull what addresses
like <this mac address> obtained <this ipv6 address>?
> hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
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> ...to make use of it.  ...but you'll need to do this on all the Linux hosts
> on your network.  I think it's running by default on OSX and you can install
> Bonjour on your windows hosts.
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> Then when a host wants to know the IP of another host running Bonjour, you
> can use the .local suffix like so...
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> $ ping somehost.local
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> ...or...
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> $ ping6 somehost.local
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> Thanks,
> Reuben
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