Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:13:17 +0200 (CEST) From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: bob@veznat.com Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, m.jakeman@lancaster.ac.uk, nslay@comcast.net Subject: Re: IPv6 Ideas Message-ID: <20090424.191317.112607500.sthaug@nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: <A01C31AF003548E1A1A05FBB377D6E74@wincrap> References: <49F1128A.3080501@comcast.net> <49F1E2E7.5010703@lancaster.ac.uk> <A01C31AF003548E1A1A05FBB377D6E74@wincrap>
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> To my knowledge this wasn't around when the Kame guys were working on this > stuff. I don't think a lot of time has been spent updating the v6 support > applications since then and that's why we don't have this feature. > > This isn't a big deal in dual-stack networks because the clients just do DNS > over v4 with whatever the DHCP server gave. In a pure-v6 world... In > hindsight it's an obvious oversight that it wasn't included in the first > place. Not necessarily just oversight, also politics. IPv6 RA can't give you DNS info (without the addition you mentioned), and DHCPv6 can't give you a default route. Both pretty bad, actually. It looks like we may get a default route option for DHCPv6 now, but there's still a lot of resistance against it. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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