On Aug 25, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
My memory is that back when stateless auto-config was conceived, the main target was the "dentist's office" scenario, i.e. basic Appletalk-like zeroconf sites.
And IPX had it, often on a much larger scale (we had thousands of hosts using it).
Unfortunately we still have one hole in this area: no way to advertise a DNS server address in RA messages. See RFC 4339.
RFC 5006 now provides this, although I only know of one implementation. Cheers, Dale AS59 & AS2381 -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
