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 ...
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