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Genuinely curious: how do you maintain a local DNS to make sure you can always designate 'printer' and 'intranet' by name?
by nicolas314 5y ago
Genuinely curious: how do you maintain a local DNS to make sure you can always designate 'printer' and 'intranet' by name?
- rzzzt 5y agodnsmasq, requests for a new DHCP lease contain the hostname which it duly registers.
- oefrha 5y agoMulticast DNS, e.g. Bonjour.
- perryizgr8 5y agoEven now I doubt many home users have a local dns server for reaching their printer by name. I think Windows uses NetBIOS for this purpose, which should work fine over IPv6 too.
- iggldiggl 5y agoSome models of home routers do run an internal DNS server which makes things accessible under a subdomain with whatever name you've set for that device in the router's configuration.
- sigjuice 5y agoprinter.local
- stephen_g 5y agoThings in IPv6 land can have multiple IP addresses - you can have a fixed address or use a fixed link-local address for an entry DNS if you're not using something like multicast DNS, but it can still initiate connections using a privacy extension address.