Subj : Re: HUB domain addressing
To   : alterego
From : Avon
Date : Fri Oct 09 2020 15:36:08

On 09 Oct 2020 at 12:00p, alterego pondered and said...
 
 al> Technically, my IPv6 address is dynamic.

Oh OK.

 al> I think its tied to the MAC address that connects to the network - so it
 al> has changed a couple of times as I've rejigged my equipment. (Not
 al> recently though, which is why I'm more confident to publicize it more).

In my case the tunnel service I am using (as my NZ ISPs are woefully slow at
offering IPv6) provisions a block that I can tap into so I set static
addresses within my LAN for different PC then set those as AAAA records for
the DNS. Seems to work OK - so far :)

 al> I will be changing providers soon that guarantee "me" a static IP (both
 al> IPv6 and IPv4) - so naturally when I do that, I want that to be as
 al> transparent as possible. SO yes, a CNAME back to what I use means your
 al> not involved nor a dependancy in that change.

If/when you go static I can add A and AAAA records in and that would be nice.
But yeah, not know enough about zone records to be too dangerous - I figured
a CNAME back to something you can manage is the best option for now..

 al> My static name for hubing networks, going forward will be a semi fido DNS
 al> standard, ie: FSX will be nF.zZZ.bbs.leenooks.net (where F and Z are the
 al> appropriate net and zone numbers).

OK

 al> On another note, it seems the IPv6 rollout is ramping out (my ISP was
 al> quite backwards and concervative, and now I have it), so wondering how
 al> many do have an IPv6 address...

More than you would expect, I seem to get a few polling in / and can poll
them outbound also using it, which is cool.

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