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Support for IPv6 DHCP or RDDNS

Hi,

I'm deploying IPv6 on our company and found out there is not possible way to automatically get DNS servers for IPv6 for mac computers, since it doesn't support dhcpv6 or the extensions for RA in stateless configuration mode.

Any word on when are this features going to be available?

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 7, 2010 2:06 PM

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Feb 16, 2011 2:57 PM in response to ddompe

It's really rather ridiculous DHCPv6 isn't implemented in OS X yet. I can (possibly) understand this for 10.4 and 10.5 but 10.6 is going to run into IPv6 deployment scenario's and should be able to handle all cases. I hope to God 10.7 has decent v6 support throughout OS X.

As far as I know, the dhcp-client used by OS X is the KAME project client, now known as WIDE-DHCP which does have support for DHCPv6 and has so for a long time. Why Apple is so reluctant to include this feature in both iOS and OS X is quite the mystery.

Support for IPv6 DHCP or RDDNS

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