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Enhance your DNS and DHCP services with dnsmasq
10-03-2008 11:00 AM
When a network is small and most of its users interact chiefly with services on the Internet at large, it's easy to get by simply by assigning numeric Internet Protocol addresses to your nodes rather than names. As the network grows, however, and as internal services (wikis, mail servers, media servers, and more) come online, recalling numeric addresses becomes unwieldy. One solution is to implement Domain Name Server (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) with dnsmasq, and thereby cache external DNS addresses for performance reasons, dynamically assign IP addresses to all of the members of your network, and manage everything from one location. This article shows you how.



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ip6_setup

ip6_setup(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      ip6_setup(8)

NAME

       ip6_setup - IPv6 configuration program

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/ip6_setup

DESCRIPTION

       The ip6_setup utility allows you to configure the IPv6 networking software on your system.

       To run ip6_setup, enter the following command and then answer the questions: # ip6_setup

       You  must know your Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) address. If your network uses subnet routing, you must know the subnet mask for your
       network.  The network manager should be able to provide you with the information that you need.

       After the ip6_setup command completes, the network services on the  system  can	be  restarted  manually  with  the  following  command:  #
       /usr/sbin/rcinet restart

       Before  you  restart  the  network  services  with  the preceding command, warn the users that the network services on the system are being
       removed.  File systems that were not mounted using the /etc/fstab file or the automount command must be unmounted with the unmount command.
       You must remount these file systems using the mount command after the network is started on your system.

       Alternatively, you can reboot the system with the following command: # /usr/sbin/shutdown -r now

FILES

       Specifies  the  host  name  file.  Specifies the environment variables that define the network configuration on your system.  Specifies the
       trusted hosts file.  Specifies the network name file.  Specifies Internet routing information.  Specifies Internet routing information.

SEE ALSO

       Commands: mount(8), rcinet(8)

       Files: gateways(4), hosts(4), hosts.equiv(4), networks(4), routes(4).

       Network Administration

																      ip6_setup(8)