[136362] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Wed Feb 2 14:37:42 2011
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
In-Reply-To: <5CF16AD6-DDCC-4A72-AD30-9DFC653A0B6D@muada.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 14:37:35 -0500
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 2, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 2 feb 2011, at 16:00, Owen DeLong wrote:
>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> For DNS in RA, see RFC 6106.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
>> DHCP fails because you can't get a default router out of it.
>=20
> If you consider that wrong, I don't want to be right.
Hey, I thought you wanted ops input... Here you are getting it, and =
look, here all you are doing is saying that its wrong.=
