RE: IPv6 and Dynamic DNS

["Peter Ford (Exchange)" <peterf@Exchange.Microsoft.com>]

Can't the router update the DNS?

peter

From: Paul A Vixie [mailto:vixie@mibh.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 2:05 PM
To: namedroppers@internic.net
Subject: Re: IPv6 and Dynamic DNS 


It seems to me that DNS (dynamic or not) can't address what seems to be a
basic flaw in the basic model of stateless address autoconfiguration.  We,
in the person of Yakov and Susan, designed DNS UPDATE with an eye toward
DHCP (v4 and v6).  Our assumptions were all based on there being an agent
on the LAN (meaning the DHCP server) who had permission to update that LAN's
inverse DNS entries (meaning IN-ADDR.ARPA and IP6.INT).  If stateless auto-
configuration doesn't work the same way (meaning there's no agent on the LAN
who has permission to update the inverse DNS entries for that LAN and who
knows about new address assignments) then stateless autoconfiguration needs
some work.  Is namedroppers really the place where this work should occur?