Tim;
> I think that,
> for example, advertising DNS by RA's in IPv6 offers a veru useful "missing
> piece" in the stateless autoconfiguration puzzle.
No, not at all.
> I have no objection to it
> as *a* method, but in the scenario of my home network I'd be quite happy
> to run without statelessly configuring clients needing to use DHCP to get
> the DNS info.
The issue is merely that "stateless" approach is hopeless only to cause
a lot of problems when its application is seriously considered.
It is a problem of IPng group to remove "stateless" approach from IPv6
specification.
Masataka Ohta
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