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RE: quietly....
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk () iname com>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:46:55 -0600
Requiring them to be on certain well known addresses is restrictive and creates an unnecessary digression from IPv4 practice. It's comments like this that raise the hair on admins' necks. At least mine. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch () muada com] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 9:23 AM To: Owen DeLong Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: quietly.... On 2 feb 2011, at 16:00, Owen DeLong wrote:
SLAAC fails because you can't get information about DNS, NTP, or anything
other than a list of prefixes and a router that MIGHT actually be able to default-route your packets. Who ever puts NTP addresses in DHCP? That doesn't make any sense. I'd rather use a known NTP server that keeps correct time. For DNS in RA, see RFC 6106. But all of this could easily have been avoided: why are we _discovering_ DNS addresses in the first place? Simply host them on well known addresses and you can hardcode those addresses, similar to the 6to4 gateway address. But no, no rough consensus on something so simple.
DHCP fails because you can't get a default router out of it.
If you consider that wrong, I don't want to be right.
Current thread:
- Re: quietly...., (continued)
- Re: quietly.... Simon Lockhart (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Florian Weimer (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... David Conrad (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Cameron Byrne (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Lamar Owen (Feb 02)
- IPv6 routing talk @ RIPE, was: Re: quietly.... Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Smith (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... sthaug (Feb 02)
- RE: quietly.... Frank Bulk (Feb 13)
- Re: quietly.... Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 15)
- Re: quietly.... David Israel (Feb 15)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 15)
- Re: quietly.... Michael Dillon (Feb 15)
- Re: quietly.... Jay Ashworth (Feb 15)
- Re: quietly.... Lamar Owen (Feb 18)
- Re: quietly.... Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 15)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 15)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Ricky Beam (Feb 02)