At the top of page 2 of draft-ietf-ipngwg-dns-discovery-01.txt is the sentence:
There are any number of ways that IPv6 hosts can discover information required to enable name resolution, in the absence of a DHCP server.
which I read to mean that the document is explicitly describing mechanisms that do not use DHCP. Section 6.1 simply suggests the use of DHCP message formats in a new protocol for use between a host and a DNS server.
draft-ietf-ipngwg-dns-discovery-01.txt expired in September, 2001. The most recent version, draft-ietf-ipv6-dns-discovery-06.txt, which describes the reserved site-local address mechanism, expired in February, 2003. The latter document also, indirectly, assumes that DHCP is not available.
- Ralph
At 01:56 PM 7/29/2003 +0200, BELOEIL Luc FTRD/DMI/CAE wrote:
Hi Raplh,
thank you for that precision.
draft-ietf-ipngwg-dns-discovery-01.txt had a whole section (6.1 DHCP) concerning DHCP. But It seems some other points could also be added to section 5 (Transport Mechanisms) so as to refer explicitly to DHCP.
Do you think it would be valuable to work again on that draft?
Luc
> -----Message d'origine----- > De : Ralph Droms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > What was missing in the original DNS discovery work is that > it explicitly ruled out DHCPv6 a priori... > > - Ralph > > At 05:03 PM 7/28/2003 +0200, BELOEIL Luc FTRD/DMI/CAE wrote: > > > >Then what is(are) the solution(s): > >- RA-based > >- DHCPv6-lite > >- Anycast Addresses for resolver DNS server > >- SLP (I also like SLP, which already a RFC - Standards > Track - !!! Does > >anybody have a good point against SLP ?) > >- well-known link-local addresses (+ DNS proxies...)?... > > > >There was a analysis made by the DNS Discovery Design Team > in march 2001 > >(draft-ietf-ipnwg-dns-discovery-01.txt). Wouldn't it be > valuable to go > >on or to restart such a work ? (instead of this no-end > battle?) I must > >have missed something concerning this old work. Could anyone give me > >some pointers or summary? > > > >Luc > > > >#------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------- > ># To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > #------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > # To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. >
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