On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 03:56 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
It is generally harmless to own an extra address though, having the statelessly configured one, as well as a dhcp supplied one should not cause any harm.
Not sure. Two reasons:
- There may be filters in place, for example that only
allows DHCP assigned addresses to go out.
(this is not pure fantasy, I've heard people willing to do just that in hot spots).
- There are reverse DNS issues. They may point to 2 different names or
more likely, the stateless autoconfigured address won't resolve to
a name, where the DHCP one will. As default address selection does
not (yet?) say to prefer the DHCP one, logs and/or (very) weak security/authentication
mechanisms based on DNS reverse lookup will work randomly.
- Alain.
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