Re: DNS discovery discussion

[Bob Hinden <hinden@iprg.nokia.com>]

Alain,

>You could do the very same thing using DHCPv6-lite. The information is there,
>it is flowing from the router to the node downstream, in a push or pull mode.
>It really is just a question of packet format. Using the multicast extension
>to DHCPv6-lite I suggested few days ago, there isn't really any difference
>between the 2 approaches with regard to pass the DNS recursive server address.
>The advantage of the DHCPv6 approach is that you can pass other configuration

I think you are suggesting extending DHCPv6-lite to have all of the 
mechanisms that ND currently has for sending multicast advertisements.  I 
don't think this is quite a simple as you suggest.  This seems to me like a 
lot of extra complexity and changes DHCPv6-lite from what I understand to 
be is a "profile" on the DHCPv6 specification.   This would be either a new 
protocol or a non-trivial change to DHCPv6.  This doesn't seem like a good 
way to proceed to me.

Bob


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