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		zdw on June 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins If you want to run authoritative DNS on your home network and have AAAA lookups for local machines, how do you go about this? Assign the DNS entry just to the ULA of each host?

khrbtxyz on June 7, 2024 [–]

Returning both the ULA and global addresses should be okay. This is what my OpenWRT router does without any special setup. wk1 is one of my local machines.

  $ dig +short wk1 AAAA @192.168.1.1
  2601:646:...
  fd7c:b0fd:fd6a:1::ba5

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