Skip to Content
Understanding IPv6, Third Edition
book

Understanding IPv6, Third Edition

by Joseph Davies
June 2012
Intermediate to advanced
716 pages
21h 5m
English
Microsoft Press
Content preview from Understanding IPv6, Third Edition

Chapter 9. IPv6 and Name Resolution

At the end of this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

  • Describe the Domain Name System (DNS) support for IPv6 name-to-address and address-to-name resolution.

  • Describe the Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution Protocol (LLMNR).

  • Describe source and destination address selection.

  • Describe the name resolution support for IPv6 provided by Windows.

Name Resolution for IPv6

For Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), it is more important than ever that names, rather than addresses, be used to reference network resources. It is hard enough to remember an IPv4 address as a series of four decimal numbers; an IPv6 address can have up to 32 hexadecimal digits. It is unreasonable to expect end users to remember or reliably ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Understanding IPv6, Second Edition

Understanding IPv6, Second Edition

Joseph Davies
IPv6 Essentials

IPv6 Essentials

Silvia Hagen
IPv6, 2nd Edition

IPv6, 2nd Edition

Peter Loshin

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780735673748Purchase book