[BUGS] Anyone for IPv6?

[Andrew Reilly]

Hi all,

Good to see the bugs mailing list showing some signs of life
again.

Impending office moves and associated network migrations have me
thinking about (more like wondering idly, really) IPv6 again.
Is anyone here running an IPv6 internal network, rather than the
usual NAT-gated IPv4 one?  Is that even possible, or do you have
to maintain a working IPv4-NAT infrastructure so that your web
browsers and mail clients and what-not can find IPv4 hosts on
the wider internet?  (I.e., is there such a thing as an
IPv6-to-IPv4 NAT gateway?)

Other idle questions: I believe that IPv6 does some form of
LAN-based auto-config, based on MAC addresses, right?  So
there's no place for DHCP in an IPv6 network?  So what is the
IPv6 way for doing name resolution?  Do you use zero-conf/avahi
to build the name database dynamically, or just manually enter
the auto-generated local IPv6 addresses into your tinydns
database, or ... (other options?)

Anyone have any good pointers to war-stories and howtos on the
web?  It's been a while since I looked, but didn't have any joy
the last time I did.

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew