On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 09:20:06AM -0400, William Smith wrote:
My question is this: How difficult (or involved) would it be to add IPv6 support to this? I know about AAAA records, but I'm not so sure what the reverse lookup file would look like.
The reverse DNS PTR record for IPv6 address 2001:468:616:820::20 would look like this: 0.2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.2.8.0.6.1.6.0.8.6.4.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa. 3600 IN PTR sinclair.wpi.edu.
Likewise, I'm not sure about how DHCP would be configured, if I have to touch it at all.
You don't need DHCPv6 unless you want to control the assignments, do dynamic DNS, etc. such as in a managed network environment. You can instead use SLAAC (Stateless Address Auto-Configuration) which is built-in to every IPv6 host and doesn't require any kind of server. You only need a Router Advertisement service to inform the hosts of the router(s) and global prefix(es) available on the link. You can run radvd on the router to provide this: yum install radvd