[Info-vax] implementing IPv6 on the internet

[Dirk Munk]

Chris wrote:
> On 09/21/16 08:46, Dirk Munk wrote:
>
>>
>> I explained that in in the first posting of this thread.
>>
>> In short, you will have global IPv6 addresses on you home LAN.
>>
>> These addresses with accompanying DNS names have to be registered on a
>> public DNS server, i.e. the DNS server of your ISP.
>>
>> There has to be a secure and automatic mechanism on your router that
>> will take care of this.
>>
>> Your ISP has to provide you with a (sub)domain where you can store your
>> entries.
>>
>> That is the only way you can access devices on you home LAN by a DNS
>> name, like nas.levitte.org .
>>
>> I notice that you have your own domain, but I assume you don't have your
>> own public DNS server. You will use the DNS server of some ISP or so. I
>> also have a domain, but it is registered at Hurricane Electric.
>>
>> So levitte.org should be registered at the nameserver of your ISP,
>> otherwise reversed name lookup is impossible.
>>
>>
>
> I don't see it in such draconian terms and there will be other solutions
> no doubt. For example, my isp holds domain names, which when accessed
> forward the request to any ip address that you choose.

Yes, alias names, nothing new.

>
> There is no way that organisations will want all the machines on
> their internal subnets out there in public view,

If organizations have machines they don't want to be reachable from the 
internet, or to be able to *access* the internet, then they should give 
those systems ULA addresses only.

> so NAT and routing
> will have an important role for the forseeable future...
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris

No, NAT is gone with IPv6. Of course there are a few brain-dead guys who 
designed IPv6 NAT, but as always with IP you can design any idiotic 
protocol you like.