[Dnsmasq-discuss] DNS64 support

[wkitty42 at gmail.com]

On 7/31/20 8:19 PM, Neal P. Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 15:29:06 +0200 Trey Sis <treysis at gmx.net> wrote:
>> may I suggest adding an option for DNS64, i.e. synthesizing of AAAA records
>> given a specified prefix for IPv4-only hostnames? I see this has been
>> brought up, but almost 10 years ago. With dnsmasq being widely in use on
>> many home routers, I think this would be a valuable addition. Especially as
>> it is much leaner than "bind" and "totd" is very outdated. >
> I still plan to do something like this in order to have a single
> configuration set for DHCP/DNS/firewall. Configure IPv4 addresses and static
> IPv4 assignments, and provide /64 IPv6 prefixes for the several LANs. Then
> have the DHCP and DNS servers synthesize IPv6 addresses using the IPv4 addrs.
> And have the firewall generating code synthesize IPv6 addresses from internal
> IPv4 addresses as needed. The two stacks remain separate (no translators
> between them) and internal network administration is simplified.

somehow this sounds familiar but seems a little clearer in this context than it 
did when originally read elsewhere some time back...


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