"Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote: > Frankly, although there are a few "wrapper management > tools" for enterprises around ISC DHCP and BIND, I'd really > like to see an "unified" layer-2/3 name service solution > come from the open source world. God knows with IPv6, it > is also redundant to keep DHCP and DNS separate, and not > under the control of a single daemon. Er, let me rephrase that, a single _set_ of daemons that are drive by the same framework/config files. In other words, daemons that worked directly with each other. E.g., a good set of daemons would include: - RARP protocol (BOOTP/DHCP) - DDNS updates (from clients, including "override" logic) - DNS queries - DNS zone transfers (legacy BIND/DNS secondary servers) - Legacy ident/proxy/service integration (NetBIOS/WINS, SAP/NLSP) - Peer replication (to the same daemons on other systems) Especially since IPv6 uses MAC addresses, and any standard node can have up to three (3) IPv6 addresses. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)