Hi Erik, > The mechanism described here is to be used as a last > resort, when no other configuration information is available. > > Does this mean that implementations of this mechanism MUST also > implement another mechanism, such as DHCP, for discovering the DNS > servers? > If not, the above words have little practical meaning since an > implementation which only supported this mechanism would be compliant; > the mechanism would be the "only" resort i.e. both the first > and last resort.
There is always manual configuration or some proprietary configuration method (for example some sort of 'over the air' configuration for cell phones using SMS). Anyhow, isn't an implementation decision on what to implement and what not to? All we can do is make recommendations on what implementations should do. John -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
