Re: quietly....

[John Payne <john () sackheads org>]

On Feb 2, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> 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.

Hey, I thought you wanted ops input... Here you are getting it, and look, here all you are doing is saying that its 
wrong.