On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:23, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljit...@muada.com>wrote:
> But all of this could easily have been avoided: why are we _discovering_ > DNS addresses in the first place? Simply host them on well known addresses > and you can hardcode those addresses, similar to the 6to4 gateway address. > But no, no rough consensus on something so simple. > I'll admit right now that I don't know nearly enough about the IETF process, but it looks like there have been 2 separate attempts at this: draft-lee-dnsop-resolver-wellknown-ipv6addr - ID, expired draft-ohta-preconfigured-dns - ID, expired Until one of those is revived (or a similar draft is written), and makes it through IETF to reach RFC status, and there are assigned addresses from IANA, there are no well known addresses for anyone hardcode. ~Matt