[ale] IPv6 local devices with a prefix that may change

[Alex Carver]

So that's part of the problem, right?

Let's say the prefix changes, how do I now access devices that are using 
the old prefix? If I have 50 devices then I have to manually change them 
all every time the prefix changes plus change everywhere I use that IP.

With IPv4/NAT I didn't have to worry, they were always the same IP no 
matter what happened outside.

On 2022-11-06 10:51, DJPfulio--- via Ale wrote:
> On 11/6/22 13:39, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
>>
>> The thing I was primarily asking about is how to be robust against a
>> prefix change in an IPv6 implementation similar to how IPv4/NAT helps
>> isolate me from my WAN's IP changing assuming that I don't use NAT
>> because nearly everyone screams about it if you threaten to use it on
>> an IPv6 system.
> 
> Isn't this solved by DNS?  Leave the hostnames the same, regardless of 
> the LAN. Just change the IP stuff in the DNS ... and on the host, of 
> course.
> 
> I've been burned by using centralized DHCP reservations, so only use 
> them for devices that are portable or don't support a method to manually 
> configure IPs ON-THE-DEVICE.
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