[Dnsmasq-discuss] TFTP for IPv6

richardvoigt at gmail.com richardvoigt at gmail.com
Thu Jun 17 23:22:06 BST 2010


Not totally sure, but I seem to recall that IPv6 support in dnsmasq
means it supports handling AAAA DNS records which are mappings to IPv6
addresses, and perhaps PTRv6 records.  Not IPv6 sockets.

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Ean Houts <ehouts at edgewaternetworks.com> wrote:
> Hello - I'm attempting to use dnsmasq mainly for it's tftp server.  My
> requirements are a multi-homed tftp server that serves both ipv4 and
> ipv6 tftp clients.
>
> I'm using fedora core 11, and the box as two NICs, both of which have
> ipv4 and ipv6 addresses.  One of the NICs has multiple aliases with
> distinct subnets (this is a test environment that needs to exercise alot
> of different functionality).
>
> Anyway, I have the dnsmasq tftp server running, but it won't respond to
> any ipv6 addresses.  dnsmasq reports ipv6 support :
> Compile time options IPv6 GNU-getopt DBus no-I18N DHCP TFTP
>
> And I've tried to enable this in the config - the uncommented settings
> are :
> no-resolv
> no-poll
> enable-tftp
> tftp-root=/export/test_data/tftpboot
> tftp-no-blocksize
> conf-dir=/etc/dnsmasq.d
>
> Unfortunately, tftp starts only listening for ipv4 :
> sudo lsof | grep tftp
> dnsmasq   24942    nobody    8u     IPv4           11864044
> 0t0        UDP *:tftp
>
> using the fedora core standard tftpd server, I have no problem
> configuring it for ipv6.  Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work very
> well with multi-homed hosts :-(
>
> Any pointers or tips would be greatly appreciated.
> thanks,
> Ean
>
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