[180676] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Jun 9 16:52:19 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Joel Maslak <jmaslak@antelope.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jun 2015 14:27:31 -0600."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 16:49:33 -0400
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 14:27:31 -0600, Joel Maslak said:
> Agreed - apparently the solution is to implement SLAAC + DNS advertisements
> *AND* DHCPv6. Because you need SLAAC + DNS advertisements for Android, and
> you need DHCPv6 for Windows.
>
> Am I the only one that thinks this situation is stupid?
It's indeed sub-optimal.
But that situation is far from the stupidest thing we've inflicted on ourselves,
and we've more or less survived them.
(I'm sure that we all have our diverging lists of "3 things stupider than
SLACC/DHCPv6" - this industry is old enough now to have quite the closet full
of stupidity skeletons....)
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