Request: Dnsmasq with DHCPv6

[grogi]

Merlin,

When building the firmware, would it be possible to enable the DHCPv6 for dnsmasq?

Currently I am geeting (at AC68u):

#> dnsmasq -v
Dnsmasq version 2.72test3 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 Simon Kelley
Compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-RTC no-DBus no-i18n no-IDN DHCP no-DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP no-conntrack no-ipset no-auth no-DNSSEC
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I am deploying ipv6 in my network, but it hardly makes any sense if I cannot automatically assign a AAAA address for the hosts and get them via DNS.

Disabling the RA and DHCPv6 from UI plus some custom scripts would solve the problem, but the current build of dnsmasq does not include those features...

Thanks

 

[AndreyPopov]

on IPv6 page you can find "Enable DHCPv6 option"!

 

[Ronv42]

What Grogi is looking for is IPv6 support in DNSmasq vs the dhcp6s daemon that ASUS put into the firmware. I would be nice to have only one DHCP service to support both but as other posted on the board ASUS looks like they doing some things differently with IPv6.

 

[grogi]

What Grogi is looking for is IPv6 support in DNSmasq vs the dhcp6s daemon that ASUS put into the firmware. I would be nice to have only one DHCP service to support both but as other posted on the board ASUS looks like they doing some things differently with IPv6.

Actually what I am looking for is just the support for DHCPv6 in dnsmasq.

It would be non-accessible from the GUI, which still controls only dhcp6s and radvd. Dnsmasq will not work in ipv6 space unless instructed in the config file, so that should not bring any regression nor additional support effort.

 

[grogi]

on IPv6 page you can find "Enable DHCPv6 option"!

That enables dhcp6s, which serves only local domain and name server address.

The DNS still does not know knows about the ipv6 addresses of the hosts in the network (which are generated by hosts based on the RA information). Despite local hosts having both - ipv6 and ipv4 addresses - DNS returns only ipv4 address

 

[john9527]

There is a previous discussion on this....http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?p=133948&highlight=dnsmasq#post133948

Looks like it was disabled starting in 376.44 for some reason. Is available on 374.43