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nicolas314 | 4 years ago

Genuinely curious: how do you maintain a local DNS to make sure you can always designate 'printer' and 'intranet' by name?

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stephen_g|4 years ago

Things in IPv6 land can have multiple IP addresses - you can have a fixed address or use a fixed link-local address for an entry DNS if you're not using something like multicast DNS, but it can still initiate connections using a privacy extension address.

oefrha|4 years ago

Multicast DNS, e.g. Bonjour.

perryizgr8|4 years ago

Even now I doubt many home users have a local dns server for reaching their printer by name. I think Windows uses NetBIOS for this purpose, which should work fine over IPv6 too.

iggldiggl|4 years ago

Some models of home routers do run an internal DNS server which makes things accessible under a subdomain with whatever name you've set for that device in the router's configuration.

rzzzt|4 years ago

dnsmasq, requests for a new DHCP lease contain the hostname which it duly registers.