On 09 Oct 2020 at 12:00p, alterego pondered and said...
Technically, my IPv6 address is dynamic.
Oh OK.
I think its tied to the MAC address that connects to the network - so it has changed a couple of times as I've rejigged my equipment. (Not
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 :)
I will be changing providers soon that guarantee "me" a static IP (both IPv6 and IPv4) - so naturally when I do that, I want that to be as transparent as possible. SO yes, a CNAME back to what I use means your
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..
My static name for hubing networks, going forward will be a semi fido DNS standard, ie: FSX will be nF.zZZ.bbs.leenooks.net (where F and Z are the appropriate net and zone numbers).
OK
On another note, it seems the IPv6 rollout is ramping out (my ISP was quite backwards and concervative, and now I have it), so wondering how 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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