RFC 7050

Discovery of the IPv6 Prefix Used for IPv6 Address Synthesis, November 2013

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Status:
PROPOSED STANDARD
Updated by:
RFC 8880
Authors:
T. Savolainen
J. Korhonen
D. Wing
Stream:
IETF
Source:
behave (tsv)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7050

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Abstract

This document describes a method for detecting the presence of DNS64 and for learning the IPv6 prefix used for protocol translation on an access network. The method depends on the existence of a well-known IPv4-only fully qualified domain name "ipv4only.arpa.". The information learned enables nodes to perform local IPv6 address synthesis and to potentially avoid NAT64 on dual-stack and multi-interface deployments.


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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