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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by samcat116 on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:27AM (#35042936)
In what way is DNS and DHCP tightly coupled? Automatically creating A records for DHCP hosts is not normal in my experience, especially for consumer routers. If some device your using supports this it could work for IPv6 as well as devices will broadcast on the network for routers when using SLAAC I believe.
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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by vetinari on Monday March 06, 2023 @12:00PM (#35043386)
Many home devices use dnsmasq as their DHCP server and DNS resolver, and it can optionally use hostnames from the DHCP part of its business during resolving DNS too.

The point GP had that it won't work, then DHCPv6 is not used.

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