Feature #8581
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IPv6 hostnames
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Description
Would be nice if AAAA records were created the same as A records as issued by dhcpv6 in the resolver. Is this something that is in the works? I opened a support case and they suggested I request this feature here.
Updated by Jim Pingle about 7 years ago
- Status changed from New to Duplicate
Duplicate of #2017
DHCPv6 clients don't send a hostname, thus the ISC DHCPv6 daemon doesn't record one in the leases that could be used to setup DNS resolution.
Updated by Shawn Patti about 7 years ago
You can send fqdn to isc-dhcp v6. It is a matter of adding send fqdn.fqdn = gethostname() to the client dhclient.conf. I had this working with bind and isc-dhcp, so the means are there.
Updated by Jim Pingle about 7 years ago
That relies on the client making it work, and that also doesn't change the fact that the server doesn't record the hostname in the lease.
You can make it work with BIND integration, sure, but that is client self-registration, which isn't possible with the base OS. If you want to cook up your own DNS structure with BIND that works fine, but it isn't something the firewall can do on its own.
Updated by Shawn Patti about 7 years ago
Jim Pingle wrote:
That relies on the client making it work, and that also doesn't change the fact that the server doesn't record the hostname in the lease.
You can make it work with BIND integration, sure, but that is client self-registration, which isn't possible with the base OS. If you want to cook up your own DNS structure with BIND that works fine, but it isn't something the firewall can do on its own.
I'm merely stating it is possible to do. I should note that I only needed to modify dhclient on linux machines. This is a feature request... obviously you can decide to ignore it, but I believe it is possible and would be nice to have. Of course I can spin up my own isc and bind server as I have done before, but I thought it would be nice to use pfsense for this.