On-going work on DHCP project : RFC4361 support

[Rene Garcia]

   Hi,

   Here is some additional information on Thomas'work : the stored   
DHCID in DNS servers will change and therefore upgrading to this new  
behaviour will need a lot of work to migrate old emulated TXT DHCID to  
new ones. That's why I aked him to add support for real DHCID RRs in  
DNS as ISC BIND 9.5+ seems to handle them.

   Including Thomas'code change into the CVS tree is a major change  
and creates an incompatibility with existing DNS records. How can we  
handle this ? Maybe using an optional compilation using a new  
--enable-feature option in configure script ?

   Therefore I hope his work will be usefull for the DHCP project.

   Regards,
René GARCIA

   Quoting Thomas PEGEOT <thomas.pegeot at sogeti.com>:

> Hello,
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> As part of my final year project (French equivalent of a Master degree in
> computing science), I’m working on an ipv4 to ipv6 migration research
> project.
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> First, I was asked to work on ISC DHCP in order to make dual stack clients
> be able to identity correctly for DDNS updates. This consists in solving the
> problem described in the “Dual IPv4/IPv6 Client Considerations” part of the
> RFC 4703 and therefore implementing the RFC 4361. It aims at allowing DHCPv4
> clients to be identified by an IAID and a DUID, and in that way having
> DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 clients compute the same DHCID from a common DUID.
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> The modifications I wrote are currently reviewed by my tutor (René Garcia,
> who already reported bugs here). Afterwards, I’m going to send these patches
> to this mailing list in hopes of having them merged with the CVS code.
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> As the DHCID support is not implemented yet in ISC DHCP, I’m going now to
> study this problem and try to write down patches in order to solve this. I
> will keep you informed about this.
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> I hope that you will be interested in my work.
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> Regards,
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> Thomas PEGEOT
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