DNS

The Lancaster University DNS servers now run BIND9 and so can be used to provide native IPv6 transport (http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/). The deployment of IPv6 enabled DNS is now in progress and should be completed in the near future.

DHCPv6

As already discussed, ISS has made the decision to deploy stateful DHCPv6 to handle IPv6 address allocation in parallel with the existing DHCP service. Given the relatively ‘new’ nature of DHCPv6, the level of support is currently low but there are some implementations available including Sourceforge (open source), NEC, Dibbler, Cisco and HP. However, there are issues that arise with each and in any case ubiquitous DHCPv6 client support (in MS Windows for example) is some way
off.

This is an important part of our IPv6 deployment plan and so we expect to begin experimentation and trialling of the various DHCPv6 implementations in the near future.