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Re: Possible bugs related to IPv6-SLAAC (DNSSL) and stateless DHCPv6 (INFORM6)

feedback

Fri Jun 21 09:21:51 2019

Hello Roy,


On 2019-06-20 17:51, Roy Marples wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 19/06/2019 19:45, feedback@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> first of all, sorry, this email got a little longer than I thought.
>>
>> I think I have found two _separate_ bugs within the latest dhcpcd
>> versions 7.2.2 and 6.11.7 when I tested the following setup:
> 
> dhcpcd-6 is only getting security fixes right now.

Sorry, didn't know that, at least this problem is now documented.


> ...
> 
>> ##
>> ## BUG 1
>> ##
>>
>> Missing DNS search domains with dhcpcd-6.11.7.
> 
> ....
> 
>> Same setup with dhcpcd-7.2.2 and I see all 4 dummy domains:
>>
>> /etc/resolv.conf:
>> # Generated by dhcpcd from eth0.dhcp6, eth0.ra
>> # /etc/resolv.conf.head can replace this line
>> search from-dhcpd.org radvd1.org radvd2.org radvd3.org
>> nameserver fd00:1234::1
>> # /etc/resolv.conf.tail can replace this line
> 
> So dhcpcd-7 is fine, nothing to fix here.
> 
>> ##
>> ## BUG 2
>> ##
>>
>> Stateless DHCPv6 seems to be broken in dhcpcd-7.2.2 as it never sends
>> any INFORM6 message but always wants to request an IPv6 address.
> 
> This has been fixed here:
> https://roy.marples.name/cgit/dhcpcd.git/commit/?h=dhcpcd-7&id=55578864df4cd019bbdb72f4b80ca3b5582fb0fb
> 
> Let me know if that works for you!

I checked with the latest sources from your GIT Repo and now INFORM6
messages work as expected.

Thank you.


> 
> Roy
> 

References:
Possible bugs related to IPv6-SLAAC (DNSSL) and stateless DHCPv6 (INFORM6)feedback
Re: Possible bugs related to IPv6-SLAAC (DNSSL) and stateless DHCPv6 (INFORM6)Roy Marples
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