On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:30:26PM -0300, Fabio Mendes wrote:
The router isn't assigning an address, it's merely telling everyone on the segment what the local prefix and default route is. As such, there's no reason why the router should try to register a DNS entry.
However, it would be logical to extend the DHCPv6 protocol to allow for registration of the workstation address in DNS by the DHCPv6 management server to be requested (similar to DHCPv4). The DHCPv6 management server needs to become aware of new IP addresses already to send ordinary unicast responses, and a DHCPv6 server is a central server that can be entrusted with the capability to update DNS records, with no need for overtrusting each individual client, or requiring a complicated authentication scheme on DNS servers, for clients to update DNS records corresponding to their own hostname, without each client's credentials being capable of updating any other machine's DNS entry. -- -JH