Hi Eric,
For example older windows were trying to send DNS updates on their
configured DNS servers. I am not sure if they are still trying that, I
assume they don't. That would work on ipv6-only network. Only that
machine knows its name.
As you have described, the name of the host is revealed anyway in DHCPv4
request. I think the OS could try to send updates to the local network
DNS server, if it resides on local network. That would be equivalent to
using mdns, which I think is used by Apple devices often. But unicast is
more reliable. The question is after which time such name should be
removed. Because not paired with DHCP lease time, it should not remain
there forever.
On 6/9/23 17:38, Eric Fahlgren wrote:
Hi Petr,
I have been looking into this off and on for the last year or two and
haven't found a good solution (where "good" is defined as "apt install
give-me-ipv6-dns-auto-names").
My two use cases are both on-LAN, so privacy is a non-issue:
1) making tcpdump show host names when I do traces;
2) allow wife and other home users to just say "https://videos.lan/";
instead of me explaining and dealing with IP addresses.
For devices offering any services to network, I think DHCPv6 client
would make sense. That would register the name automagically. Static
records would be good for devices always there, like raspberry pi service.
My solution is a cron script on my (Linux/OpenWrt) gateway device that
looks at the DHCPv4 table to collect MAC:host-name pairs, then looks
at 'ip -6 neigh show' to get MAC:IPv6 pairs, matches up the names and
SLAAC IPv6s to the names and writes them to a dnsmasq config file.
(The config file still needs manual cleaning, as I don't have anything
logging expiration times.)
Sounds like working, but not too elegant hack. I think dhcp-range with
ra-names should help you in this case, if the dnsmasq is doing this job.
Should do something like your script in a bit more elegant way. But
needs IPv4 DHCP to obtain the name. If we ever stop using it, that will
stop providing names.
It would be lovely if there were a nice demon that just sat and
watched for NDP NA/NS messages and used that information (including
TTLs) to do a DNS UPDATE instead of my hack. I'm not sure where to
get host names on an IPv6-only network, as I haven't looked into that
part deeply...
Eric
At least using MDNS responder on network gateway might push names
obtained via mdns into unicast dns too. I would expect some RA option to
say: try to register on the DNS server (if you wish). But IANA has
nothing such registered [1]. Because I would like to have some names for
all connected devices in my network, without a need to register them
manually.
1.
https://www.iana.org/assignments/icmpv6-parameters/icmpv6-parameters.xhtml#icmpv6-parameters-5
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