IARIA (International Academy, Research and Industry Association)
Abstract
Abstract—The configuration of an IPv6 network is a rather
daunting and error-prone procedure for system administrators.
Each node must be provided with its own (128 bit long) IPv6
address and with a domain name manageable by human beings.
Autoconfiguration methods can give addresses to interfaces but
do not provide any means of configuring the DNS. This paper
presents some methods based on hash functions which highly
simplify the network configuration process. System administra-
tors just need to define the fully qualified domain names of all
the networking nodes (servers and clients) and the networking
prefixes for each LAN or subnet. Each node will acquire its
own IPv6 address and the DNS server will be automatically
configured to support name resolution for all the nodes. The
whole process does not require system administrators to type any
IPv6 addresses, and it is fully compatible with existing protocols
for autoconfiguration and name resolution
