Re: DHCP and RA and DNS, oh my...

[james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>]

On Sep 13, 2007, at 14:56, Mark Smith wrote:
> Would the following be a fair summary of the scenarios being talked
> around?
>
> 1. No RAs, link local only addressing, Zeroconf techniques/ 
> Multicast DNS
>
> 2. RAs, ll + RA announced prefixes, RA announced DNS server(s)
>
> 3. RAs, ll + RA announced prefixes, RA announced DNS server(s), DHCP
> for any other node configuration options
>
> 4. RAs, ll + RA announced prefixes, DHCP announced DNS server(s) +  
> other node
> configuration options.

I think scenario 3 is bad.  I see no good reason for RA with both O=1  
and DNS server options.  I'd be perfectly okay with requirement  
language that says DNS server options in RA must be not be sent, and  
must be ignored if received, when O=1.


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james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>
member of technical staff, communications engineering