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From: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 20:17:30 +0100
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Subject: Re: proposal for a compromise on DNS discovery

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:55:01AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> 1. In every situation where RA DNS announcements are proposed, dhcp is a
>    better solution.

But will every device have a DHCPv6 (or DHCPv6 Lite) server on link?  For
those that do, one might ask "why bother with stateless autoconf?" and of
course many sites will wish to keep using DHCP(v6) as a policy choice.
But for networks without DHCP on link, the RA method is an alternative.

Perhaps you can elaborate on your view of "better" to help the resolution
of this discussion along? :)
 
> 2. RA DNS announcements are an ugly feature creep for RA, and should not
>    be implemented.

The spec for Router Advertisements allows for additional options to be
specified, so this was considered possible when the spec was done.

Tim
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