James Knott wrote:
On 07/04/2017 01:29 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Around here, IPv6 is being dished out to customers, usually without telling them. I have had at least 3 cases where people suddenly had IPv6 addresses. For Joe Consumer it isn't a problem of course, but I had one yesterday who couldn't understand why his dynamic dns updates weren't working - well, he was asking to have an A record set to the address of the client - which defaulted to using IPv6.
Did they not have IPv4 available too?
Yes, but the client (wget) for the dyndns update defaults to the machine default, IPv6. I told them to add '-4' to wget.
Of course, you shouldn't need a dynamic DNS with IPv6, as your prefix should be static and you point the DNS to the MAC based addresses.
Is the prefix really meant to be static or is it like IPv4, best efforts? Anyway, they wanted the dyndns for their ipv4 address. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (25.9°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org