On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Alain Durand wrote: > On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 10:25 PM, Pekka Savola wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Alain Durand wrote: > >> On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 12:03 PM, Ralph Droms wrote: > >>> If it's unclear, then we should edit the document to explicitly > >>> identify the addresses as IPv6 addresses. > >>> > >>> This option is intended to return IPv6 configuration information. > >>> IPv4 addresses for DNS resolvers should be provided through DHCPv4... > > > > I symphatize with this -- there are some uses to have DHCPv6 return > > IPv4 > > addresses too -- but the result would just make the dnsconfig option > > more > > complex for little benefit. Let's face it: if you deploy DHCPv6, you > > really should have long since deployed IPv6-enabled nameservers too. > > > > So, I think clarifying the scope to do only IPv6 seems like the best > > option by far. > > Some may scream at this idea, but couldn't we pass an IPv4-mapped address > in there? The DHCPv6 client could recognize this special format > to mean this is actually a v4 address?
That is certainly an idea, but I don't like passing around mapped addresses if it can be avoided. Anything which requires special code in DHCPv6 seems like a bad idea. Of course, if the mapped address is pushed in your /etc/resolv.conf and your resolver understands that.... -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
