Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

> On Jun 9, 2015, at 09:22 , Matthew Kaufman <matthew () matthew at> wrote:
>
> On 6/8/2015 11:35 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:
> > > > We're in the beginning steps of bringing up IPv6 at the fairly large
> > > > university where I work. We plan to use DHCPv6 rather than SLAAC for a
> > > > variety of reasons. One of our guys recently noticed that Android has no
> > > > support for DHCPv6, and a rather odd issue thread discussing it:
> > curious about the reasoning, for what is probably singular devices on a LAN ?
>
> Lack of RDNSS support in Windows? That's the complication on my IPv6-only network.
>
> Matthew Kaufman

As a general rule, Windows is a significant complication on any network forced to deal with its users.

This is not limited to IPv6.

Owen