Re: DNS servers and anycast addresses

2005-03-22 Thread James
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:05:39AM +0100, Ed Kapitein wrote: > Hi Lawrence, > > I can't give you answers to all your questions, but to tell a (linux/unix) > host which DNS server to use, you would enter the ipv6 address in the > /etc/resolv.conf file. > > And then i doesn't matter if the DNS serv

Re: DNS servers and anycast addresses

2005-03-22 Thread Tim Chown
I think the question he was angling after how it is found in an autoconfiguring network using stateless address autoconfiguration. i.e. you don't know the server name/IPv6 address in advance. There's no agreed best solution right now. Windows XP implemented well-known site locals for this, thoug

DNS servers and anycast addresses

2005-03-22 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Lawrence, I can't give you answers to all your questions, but to tell a (linux/unix) host which DNS server to use, you would enter the ipv6 address in the /etc/resolv.conf file. And then i doesn't matter if the DNS server is on a different subnet, as long as you can route traffic to that subne