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 > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List >IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng >FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng >Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
