[Dnsmasq-discuss] Additional feature requested for stateful DHCHv6 together with a 6RD-tunnel to the ISP

[Simon Kelley]

On 14/01/13 21:59, Joakim Langlet wrote:

> I guess that this could solve part of the issue and I will of course
> have a look at it.
> 
> As you mentioned, "dhcp-host" would still not be supported. I would like
> to use dhcp-host in order to allow certain services (located on a
> specific machine) to get a "deterministic" IPv6 address, so that I
> change the "AAAA" record in the public DNS out-there.
> By using this mechanism, I would not have to administrate the address
> change on the server, but I guess that a defined "lease-time" (which is
> short) would be required. BTW: Can the lease-time be set for
> dhcp-host?? 
> 
> There are of course other ways to accomplish the same thing, but
> dhcp-host with "prefix substitution" seems to be a neat solution.
> 
> Any solution that would allow both dhcp-range and dhcp-host to be
> updated when the address changes, is the solution that I would vote for.
> 
> Again, I will have a look at 2.66test5 to see how that works...


Skip forward to 2.66test11, that allows wildcard dhcp-hosts


dhcp-range=::1,:400,contructor:eth0
dhcp-host=[::4],mymachine


Cheers,

Simon.