[136322] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Wed Feb 2 10:24:18 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <9271A508-9B5E-4919-AC14-487B8C8E8617@delong.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:23:28 +0100
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2 feb 2011, at 16:00, Owen DeLong wrote:
> SLAAC fails because you can't get information about DNS, NTP, or =
anything other than a list of prefixes and a router that MIGHT actually =
be able to default-route your packets.
Who ever puts NTP addresses in DHCP? That doesn't make any sense. I'd =
rather use a known NTP server that keeps correct time.
For DNS in RA, see RFC 6106.
But all of this could easily have been avoided: why are we _discovering_ =
DNS addresses in the first place? Simply host them on well known =
addresses and you can hardcode those addresses, similar to the 6to4 =
gateway address. But no, no rough consensus on something so simple.
> DHCP fails because you can't get a default router out of it.
If you consider that wrong, I don't want to be right.=
