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barsalou | 30 Apr 18:36

Dlink DI-624 and IPV6

*WARNING* My conclusions here are based on observation, not any =20
specific facts related to the unit or from what I could find on the =20
internet, but I thought I'd share the info anyway.

Recently I decided to switch from Centos to Ubuntu (7.1 - Edgy).

First of all, this was not painless.  These two distros are =20
significantly different.

Luckily for me the Ubuntu crowd documents things reasonably well.

This change is important to state because at the time of the =20
changeover, my DI-624 started to reboot itself and seemingly random =20
intervals.

It turns out that in some way the IPV6 that is setup automatically on =20
new Ubuntu installs causes this problem for the DI-624.

The DI-624 is configured to be a DNS caching server for my internal network.

My personal guess is that The DI-624 didn't handle IPV6 DNS resolution =20
well and that caused the unit to loose its mind and reboot...which is =20
better than the unit just stopping all together.

So turning off IPV6 on all my machines (Macs, PC with Vista, my Ubuntu =20
server) cleared the problem right up.

I probably could have also solved the problem by creating a DNS =20
caching server to handle the ipv6 requests, but didn't want to spend =20
the time.

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Piet van Weel | 30 Apr 22:27

Re: Dlink DI-624 and IPV6

Interesting...

I had a similar issue with a DLINK and upon talking with dlink they were 
saying that the rebooting was caused by the UPNP configuration in the 
DLINK router. Apparently their UPNP system isn't very PNP friendly. They 
said if I turned it off it would stop the rebooting. I did, and it did.

BTW: I do have IPV6 running on a couple of the MS boxes here.

Piet

barsalou wrote:
> *WARNING* My conclusions here are based on observation, not any =20
> specific facts related to the unit or from what I could find on the =20
> internet, but I thought I'd share the info anyway.
>
>
> Recently I decided to switch from Centos to Ubuntu (7.1 - Edgy).
>
> First of all, this was not painless.  These two distros are =20
> significantly different.
>
> Luckily for me the Ubuntu crowd documents things reasonably well.
>
> This change is important to state because at the time of the =20
> changeover, my DI-624 started to reboot itself and seemingly random =20
> intervals.
>
> It turns out that in some way the IPV6 that is setup automatically on =20
> new Ubuntu installs causes this problem for the DI-624.

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barsalou | 30 Apr 23:46

Re: Dlink DI-624 and IPV6

That is interesting...what version of the firmware are you currently running=
?

Also, are you pointing your clients at it for DNS resolution?

Mike B.

Quoting Piet van Weel <pmvw <at> outwardfocus.net>:

> Interesting...
>
> I had a similar issue with a DLINK and upon talking with dlink they
> were saying that the rebooting was caused by the UPNP configuration in
> the DLINK router. Apparently their UPNP system isn't very PNP friendly.
> They said if I turned it off it would stop the rebooting. I did, and it
> did.
>
> BTW: I do have IPV6 running on a couple of the MS boxes here.
>
> Piet
>
> barsalou wrote:
>> *WARNING* My conclusions here are based on observation, not any =3D20
>> specific facts related to the unit or from what I could find on the =3D20
>> internet, but I thought I'd share the info anyway.
>>
>>
>> Recently I decided to switch from Centos to Ubuntu (7.1 - Edgy).
>>
>> First of all, this was not painless.  These two distros are =3D20

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