[Dnsmasq-discuss] DNS64 support

[Neal P. Murphy]

On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 12:39:00 -0400
wkitty42 at gmail.com wrote:

> 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 it is much leaner than "bind" and "totd" is very outdated.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...

Likely because the concept is just a little clearer to me today. :)