dynamic dns update / rtdavd

2002-02-15 Thread Abdul Basit
Hi, Just want to know that if its possible to dynamically update dns if we are assigning ipv6 addresses dynamically by router advertisements(for e.g rtdavd or zebra that finally assignes a EUI64+ compaitable ipv6 address) kinda like DHCP mechanism. DHCP has a support for dynamic dns updates

RE: PPP and Global Addresses

2002-02-15 Thread NOISETTE Yoann FTRD/DMI/CAE
Title: RE: PPP and Global Addresses PD (Automatic Prefix Delegation) doesn't specify any means to set the prefix pool the routers rely on for delegation, apart from a manual setting. The DHCPv6 option could be used in this aim, and would be therefore complementary to PD... Moreover PD also

Re: PPP and Global Addresses

2002-02-15 Thread Yamasaki Toshi
PD (Automatic Prefix Delegation) doesn't specify any means to set the prefix pool the routers rely on for delegation, apart from a manual setting. Could you kindly explain what you mean by this sentence in another way? I did't get the point... The DHCPv6 option could be used in this aim, and

RE: PPP and Global Addresses

2002-02-15 Thread NOISETTE Yoann FTRD/DMI/CAE
Title: RE: PPP and Global Addresses The draft-haberman-ipngwg-auto-prefix-01.txt says : 4.4 Prefix Delegation After the request is verified to be acceptable, the Delegating Router allocates the requested prefix size from its pool of available addresses. The creation and management

Re: PPP and VLAN link-local addresses

2002-02-15 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: I was wondering if this has been mentioned before. Will there be adverse effects( is this allowed in the first place?) = this is NOT allowed and is not useful (link-local addresses are bound to a link, there is no need to say which link inside the

site local addresses

2002-02-15 Thread Lori Napoli
From draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-07 in section 2.4 it states: Address type Binary prefixIPv6 notation Section -- --- Unspecified 00...0 (128 bits) ::/128 2.5.2 Loopback

Re: PPP and Global Addresses

2002-02-15 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: ... The creation and management of that pool is beyond the scope of this document, but it can be supposed that minimalistically a Delegating Router will be statically configured with a fixed pool. What I meant is that the pool used

Re: site local addresses

2002-02-15 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: So, is it sufficient to say any address that starts with FEC0::/10 is a site local address or does it have to be FEC0::48? = I believe the 07 draft clearly specifies that anything which is in fec0::/10 but not in fec0::/48 is reserved, i.e. an illegal

Re: PPP and Global Addresses

2002-02-15 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Not even when the M and O bits in the Router Advertisement message are configured to indicate a combination of stateless and stateful autoconfiguration such that DHCPv6 provides options (e.g., SIP server option) but not an actual address? = look

Re: PPP and Global Addresses

2002-02-15 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Mr. Dupont, DHCP originally started with allowing dynamic IP address allocation. A secondary benefit of utility is in network operations, it is impossible to manually assign IP address to 100's of hosts let alone 1,000,000's that IPv6 would allow.

RE: PPP and Global Addresses

2002-02-15 Thread Dr. Subrata Goswami
nope, not enough for a accounting, service termination etc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Francis Dupont Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 8:55 AM To: Dr. Subrata Goswami Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PPP and Global Addresses In

RE: dynamic dns update / rtdavd

2002-02-15 Thread Tony Hain
You are asking an implementation specific question. There is nothing in either mechanism specifically targeting DDNS updates, but you will likely find products that do update dns whichever mechanism gets used. One design assumption of RA based auto-config was that nodes would most likely register

Re: PPP and Global Addresses

2002-02-15 Thread Ole Troan
In your previous mail you wrote: ... The creation and management of that pool is beyond the scope of this document, but it can be supposed that minimalistically a Delegating Router will be statically configured with a fixed pool. What I meant is that the

RE: PPP and Global Addresses

2002-02-15 Thread Tony Hain
Ole Troan wrote: ... would you be happier if we renamed it to SNCP (Simple Node Configuration Protocol)? :-) Actually, yes. Routers are not hosts, so configuring routers with what is titled a host specific protocol will create more confusion than it is worth. for me this boils down to