To:
"Tim Chown" <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, <dnsop@cafax.se>
From:
"BELOEIL Luc FTRD/DMI/CAE" <luc.beloeil@francetelecom.com>
Date:
Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:16:42 +0200
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avoiding proxies
Subject:
RE: avoiding proxies
Hi Tim, > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Tim Chown [mailto:tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk] > Envoye : mercredi 30 juillet 2003 16:46 > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:05:35AM -0500, Eric A. Hall wrote: > > > I note that in many enterprises DHCP is not used. Hosts are manually > configured, yet such enterprises have well known DNS resolvers. > > At our own enterprise (university) where we have DHCP we use > it for the > basic network config stuff (that is handled in v6 by RAs), > plus DNS, DNS > search path, NTP, NIS and some boot parameters. I don't > know how typical > that is in a campus department. > At our own entreprise (operator R&D department), we have also DHCP. I do think that is very common in our IPv4 world. > The interesting question is how the DNS resolver (and/or > other) information > is configured to the router, for the RA method to work. > To my mind, recursive DNS resolver information would be acquired through uplink access in a SOHO environment (typically through DHCPv6 over PPP). In a entreprise/university, such information would be configured by network managers on routers where it is needed, in the same manner as the configuration of DHCP-relay are configured. > Tim Luc #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.