[17013] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: renumbering and roaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Wed May 20 00:30:26 1998
In-Reply-To: <slrn6m3km2.5hv.usenet@hmmm.colo.erols.net>
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 00:23:18 -0400
To: usenet@oneill.net (Clayton O'Neill), nanog@merit.edu
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
At 2:44 PM -0400 5/19/98, Clayton O'Neill wrote:
>On 19 May 1998 08:06:24 -0400, William Allen Simpson
><wsimpson@greendragon.com> wrote:
>|Speaking as the author of "LCP Extensions", there is no such LCP
>|extension as "dynamically-assigned DNS servers".
>|
>|There is a bogus, NDA'd, Mircosoft-only, NetBEUI extension to PPP IPCP,
>|using numbers stolen from the high end of the option space without
>|registering with IANA, which is marginally applicable to DNS.
>|
>|This approach has been officially rejected by the IETF. It is not a
>|"best current practice". It only works with NT servers, which no sane
>|and stable ISP would use.
>
>FWIW, almost all of the NAS's in production today support Microsoft's PPP
>extensions for dynamically assigned DNS servers. Like it or not, it's
>something that we have to live w/today.
Really? I can't seem to find it in the USR manuals.
--Dean
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