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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 20, 2025 @06:04PM (#46340520)
The things on your LAN that you're connecting to via DNS and IP, which cause the desire to have stable LAN IPs in the first place.
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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) by shibapuppie on Saturday December 20, 2025 @07:35PM (#46341131)
That's what DNS is for... to not need to remember or know numerical addresses.
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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 20, 2025 @07:41PM (#46341168)
And DNS is easier to set up if the IP doesn't change constantly.

This conversation is going in circles.

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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) by vel0city on Saturday December 20, 2025 @11:06PM (#46342168)
If you're doing your DNS properly it's not really that difficult. If you're statically definining all your DNS you're doing it wrong.
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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 20, 2025 @11:16PM (#46342210)
Okay, how do I properly set DNS so it tracks the changing public addresses of my desktop and printer? And I'd better still be able to use SLAAC.
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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) by vel0city on Saturday December 20, 2025 @11:37PM (#46342285)
You register addresses based on Router/Neighbor Advertisements in NDP. In your RA, you'd point it to your DNS server, which would then handle registration when hosts check in with their new IP addresses.
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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) by shibapuppie on Sunday December 21, 2025 @04:19AM (#46343417)
Wow look, DNS has the solutions!
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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) by stereo on Sunday December 21, 2025 @04:50AM (#46343604)
Which dns server supports this kind of dynamic dns in practice?
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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) by immibis on Sunday December 21, 2025 @05:07AM (#46343699)
How, exactly, pray tell, is "properly"?
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