[Dnsmasq-discuss] Can Dnsmasq be told not to advertise a specific prefix via RA?

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Sun Oct 28 11:26:13 GMT 2018


Can you also add a dhcp-range for the ULA range, which deprecates it?

Cheers,

Simon.


On 27/10/2018 18:17, Christopher Martin wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Is it possible to prevent Dnsmasq from advertising a specific prefix via
> router advertisements?
> 
> Here's my situation. My ISP provides a dynamic IPv6 prefix which, using
> wide-dhcpv6, ends up assigned to interface bond0. Dnsmasq then
> advertises the prefix on bond0 out to the LAN. The various hosts on the
> LAN use it, together with IPv6 privacy extensions, to generate global
> IPv6 addresses. So far so good.
> 
> For reference, my config is as follows:
> 
> dhcp-range=::,constructor:bond0,ra-only,infinite
> 
> Here's the problem. I also assign a ULA to bond0 (fd00:etc.). Dnsmasq
> also advertises this prefix to the LAN, but I don't want it to, because
> then the other hosts on the LAN end up generating addresses based on it,
> including via IPv6 privacy extensions. Whereas what I want is to
> manually assign each host its own specific, unchanging and easily
> remembered ULA, which should also be the source IP used when connecting
> to various services around the LAN. Too many ULAs cause problems.
> 
> Is there a way to instruct Dnsmasq to _not_ advertise the ULA prefix,
> but to continue advertising the global prefix from my ISP? Perhaps this
> option already exists and I've simply missed it - apologies if that's
> the case.
> 
> Thanks very much,
> 
> Christopher Martin
> 
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