On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 08:48:53PM +0000, Ronan Pigott via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote: > Hi dnsmasq,
Hello Dnsmasq mailinglist, > So I searched around and found some very old discussions about supporting DNS > Update in dnsmasq. It seems like the feeling was that since dnsmasq already > gathered it's own information base from DHCP, it wasn't necessary to add DNS > Update support for clients because we already know their local address. > > Today I am interested in DNS Update support for the benefit of IPv6 home lans, > especially IPv6 only lans, where we cannot derive the host address from DHCP > leases. With --enable-ra, in some cases we can guess the client address if it > chooses EUI-64 addresses, but RFC 7217 "stable privacy" addresses are > increasingly common, and once again it seems there is just no way to resolve > AAAA records accurately on the lan. I think DNS Update could resolve this > problem. And even documented in RFC 1925. > Any thoughts on reconsidering support for this protocol in dnsmasq? Try to express were the complexity should be. > Or other solutions? > > Cheers, > Ronan Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
