Re: [69ATTENDEES] DHCP

[Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 12:45:10PM -0500, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
> Fully agree.
> 
> I was absolutely unable to get DHCP working during more than two hours
> yesterday afternoon, which is unacceptable in my opinion.
> 
> However I was able to use IPv6, manually configuring my own IPv6 DNS
> resolver from my home network.

Well I think a number of people have put a lot of work in to avoid
open IPv4 recursive DNS servers...
 
> It will be really nice to make sure that we can progress with more
> parameters available in the RA.
> 
> And by the way, unfortunately the DHCP issues are very very very very
> frequent in many networks, not sure if its a protocol/design issue or just
> not so good DHCP implementations, but it is the reality.

As Itojun has spotted, there are rogue IPv6 RAs on the network, so IPv6
is not necessarily any better for you in this type of network.

Tim