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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Oct 7, 2010 7:10 PM in response to ddompe

AFAIK, System Preferences->Network->Ehternet->click on Advanced button->TCP/IP has a configure IPv6->automatic option. Once that's enabled, select the DNS pane and you should be able to add IPv6 addresses. That said, whether or not IPv6 makes any sense is left as an exercise.
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Dec 5, 2010 12:35 PM in response to ddompe

I also need to know when these features will be supported. Either I need the OS to accept IPv6 DNS servers from RAs, or support for DHCPv6?

I would prefer DHCPv6, given that I need to push in the domain names, NTP etc.

Accepting DNS config from RAs is fine for home, but I really need the DHCPv6 for the office.
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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.
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Mar 10, 2011 6:38 AM in response to daenneys

I agree. I was shocked to learn DHCPv6 isn't supported in 10.6! I am also deploying IPv6 for my customers and inside my company. My Macbook Pro works great and will get an address from the local router however, once we start to introduce stateless and DHCPv6, the MAC is a boat anchor 😟
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