Blog entries for "DHCP"

DS-Lite architecture: overview and automatic configuration

09 Aug 2011
Tomasz Mrugalski

Dual Stack Lite is an architecture that allows IPv4 services to be provided in an IPv6 network, despite a limited amount of available IPv4 addresses. Work on DS-Lite was conducted within the Softwires working group in the IETF, and began in late 2008. After many revisions it was recently published as RFC6333, with its companion RFC6334 dedicated to automated configuration.

BIND 10 & DHCP

16 May 2011
Shane Kerr

BIND 10

BIND 10 is the next generation version of BIND, ISC's DNS server. We have a long list of ways that we wanted to improve on BIND 9, including scalability, reliability, modularity, extensibility, and usability. The project to build BIND 10 has been active for the past 2 years, and now has a usable (though not yet production ready) server.

ISC DHCP

Implementing IPv6 is no longer optional

04 Jan 2011
Sue Graves

The exhaustion of IPv4 space from IANA is coming as soon as February (yes, next month!) and the reserve held by the RIRs will be running dry shortly thereafter. The ability to provide (and use) IPv6 infrastructure is no longer optional; it is a requirement.