Re: renumbering and roaming

[Dean Anderson <dean () av8 com>]

At 2:44 PM -0400 5/19/98, Clayton O'Neill wrote:
> On 19 May 1998 08:06:24 -0400, William Allen Simpson
> <wsimpson () greendragon com> wrote:
> |Speaking as the author of "LCP Extensions", there is no such LCP
> |extension as "dynamically-assigned DNS servers".
> |
> |There is a bogus, NDA'd, Mircosoft-only, NetBEUI extension to PPP IPCP,
> |using numbers stolen from the high end of the option space without
> |registering with IANA, which is marginally applicable to DNS.
> |
> |This approach has been officially rejected by the IETF.  It is not a
> |"best current practice".  It only works with NT servers, which no sane
> |and stable ISP would use.
>
> FWIW, almost all of the NAS's in production today support Microsoft's PPP
> extensions for dynamically assigned DNS servers.  Like it or not, it's
> something that we have to live w/today.

Really? I can't seem to find it in the USR manuals.

                --Dean


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