Yeah I know kind of convoluted but if you think about it it does make a bit of sense. Maybe only a bit though.
Jon On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > I was only referring to the server needing a fixed address not any of the > clients. I have always thought that you had to have at least some fixed > point to refer to when using DHCP that being the server or more correctly > the server's address. Now if we don't need DHCP at all and still get things > like DNS for function correctly then we would not need a fixed reference > point to work off of. > > It is kind of like where in 3 dimensional space is the earth. Do we use > the distance from our sun or from the core of the Milky Way as the point of > origin. We could use both but then we would need continually be > recalculating position for everything to work and distances to be > calculated. Using a fixed reference point for objects in space makes it > easier to find things without having to recompute angles and distances from > fixed objects which would not be fixed unless we had some simple reference > points in space to use. > > Jon > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Well, after diligence and testing… I’ve solved this. Windows 2008 >> DHPCv6 >> >> will not work reliably without having a static IPv6 address assigned to >> it. >> > >> > DHCP v4 needed the same thing as well did it not? >> >> Sure, but IPv6 isn't IPv4. The whole "stateless address" config >> thing means that, in theory, every node can automagically configure >> itself with a globally unique IP address without the need for DHCP at >> all. If you're a member of that church, DHCP just becomes a method >> for nodes to discover things like DNS and mail servers. There's no >> reason I'm aware of that should have to be tied to a manually >> configured address. >> >> -- Ben >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
