Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-08-01 Thread Jason White
Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: ... or is it the following ok? Firewalling, ala IPCop's port forwarding setup. That is, we have a firewall in IPCop (or similar) and outside access to ANY internal machine is still restricted by what is port forwarded? If

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au a écrit : This is the killer for me. I want to be able to plug something into the network (usually an embedded board, with no console), and then be able to ssh to it by name. [...] With stateless configuration, there is no log of what is assigned, and

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Rick Thomas wrote: +) It can be nice to be able to bypass the ISP-imposed NAT. You can SSH directly into your home server without messing around with port mapping. This has a security downside, of course, but the convenience is nice. Yes, but that can be a huge negative too. Any

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-13 Thread Bastien Durel
Le mercredi 13 juillet 2011 à 20:48 +1000, Andrew McGlashan a écrit : Hi, [...] Many using 3G USB modems are opening themselves up to abuse if (by default) having their machines directly connected to the Internet. Any machine that is directly accessible via the Internet _must_ have

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-13 Thread Michael Richardson
What I've wanted is for avahi-daemon to do dynamic DNS updates into forward and reverse based upon what it sees on the network. Or have radvd do this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ipv6-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-13 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:23:00AM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: What I've wanted is for avahi-daemon to do dynamic DNS updates into forward and reverse based upon what it sees on the network. Or have radvd do this. It does that mdns update fine. I'be ssh'ed to server.local via IPv6 and

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-12 Thread Rick Thomas
time imagining a SO/HO network where you would do that. +) Getting your reverse DNS (IPv6 address - name) supported outside of your home network is difficult/impossible. It's no problem, of course, *inside* the home network where you control the DNS server. [**] +) Getting global (outside

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-12 Thread peter
Rick == Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com writes: Rick On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Laurence Hurst wrote: I am only aware of using DHCP with DNS to achieve what I currently do wrt reliable, cross-device, forward and reverse host lookups but was wondering if there was a way to take advantage of