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To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
CC: Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@Sun.COM>, dnsop@cafax.se
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 05:37:12 +0900
In-Reply-To: <3A5A0748-1542-11D8-A1D0-000A95CD987A@muada.com>
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
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Subject: Re: DNS discovery

Iljitsch;
 
> Reading RFC 2462 will clear that confusion right up. There is an 
> explicit bit in router advertisements that tells hosts whether they 
> should use a stateful mechanism (sorry, this is what it's called, 
> replace with "DHCPv6lite" in the next version) to discover additional 
> configuration information.

That is the source of all the confusions caused by a poorly defined
word of "stateless". 

That is, DHCP-lite is considered to be a "stateless" mechanism.

I agreee DHCP is the way to go with the, so called, "stateful" cases.

						Masataka Ohta



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