Re: Minutes / Notes

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On vrijdag, jul 25, 2003, at 11:42 Europe/Amsterdam, Tim Chown wrote:

> But there is no automatic way to get DNS resolver info in IPv6.
> In all proposals to date, somewhere something needs to be configured,
> be it in a DHCPv6 (Lite) server, in a router sending the RAs, by 
> setting
> up site local routing (though that seems dead :) or by Masataka's 
> method
> (where the routing entry is configured).
If you think about it, having to find an address for a server that 
helps you find addresses is somehwat bizarre... I think it makes much 
more sense to hardcode these addresses in the OS (should be possible to 
override by the administrator of course). This goes both for the root 
servers which of course need regular address space and for on-site 
resolvers which then need site local addresses. So I guess we have a 
good use for site local addresses after all.