November 2011 Archives

Routing configuration over DHCPv6

08 Nov 2011
Tomek Mrugalski

Currently the DHCPv6 protocol does not allow the provisioning of any routing-related information to hosts. A new proposal is addressing this shortcoming. The draft draft-ietf-mif-dhcpv6-route-option defines a mechanism for delivering routing information over the DHCPv6 protocol. This article explains core concepts and explains how to use the ISC DHCP software to deliver such information.

BIND 9.9.0b2 -- a feature update

22 Nov 2011
by Evan Hunt

Today, ISC is publishing a new beta release of BIND 9.9.0.  As several new features have been added since the feature preview I posted on the occasion of the first alpha release, it would seem to be a good time for an update.