Check out <draft-droms-dnsconfig-dhcpv6-00.txt>.  A DHCPv6 server
for "stateless DHCPv6" (DHCPv6 without address assignment) need
not impose a lot of administrative overhead for DNS configuration.

- Ralph

At 03:42 PM 12/1/2001 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:

>There's one additional point to consider.
>
>DNS server is pretty much required; or so the draft assumes.  Personally,
>for small sites, I disagree.
>
>With IPv6, one does not *need* to set up DHCP server (as much as with
>IPv4).  It's apparent that the work is concentrating on making it possible
>to do certain basic DHCP-like things without DHCP server.
>
>If DHCP server existed in the network -- sure, it would be ok to put the
>data there.  But one of the points here is to avoid adding DHCP server at
>all.
>
>The real question is: "are all of these configurables so critical that we
>should mandate DHCPv6 server in every network which would like to
>autoconfigure them?".
>
>IMO, the answer for at least some parts of the draft is "no, we shouldn't
>need DHCP for them".
>
>--
>Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
>Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
>Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords
>
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