On Feb 2, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 2 feb 2011, at 16:00, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> SLAAC fails because you can't get information about DNS, NTP, or anything >> other than a list of prefixes and a router that MIGHT actually be able to >> default-route your packets. > > Who ever puts NTP addresses in DHCP? That doesn't make any sense. I'd rather > use a known NTP server that keeps correct time. > > For DNS in RA, see RFC 6106. > > 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. > >> DHCP fails because you can't get a default router out of it. > > If you consider that wrong, I don't want to be right.
Hey, I thought you wanted ops input... Here you are getting it, and look, here all you are doing is saying that its wrong.
