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Re: Overloading RA [Re: RFC 5006 status]



On 3/19/10 2:09 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
What I notice is that DHCP has become very heavily loaded with options.
Although one can deploy DHCP without using all those options, it has
become a complex thing. SLAAC at least has the advantage that it's
stayed simple; in fact the only overloading so far is RFC 5006. I think
we'd need a very convincing argument to depart from that simplicity,
as opposed to simply saying: if you need to convey arbitrary parameters
to hosts, use DHCPv6, which is intended for that purpose.

A DNS server address is not an arbitrary parameter; along with a default
router, it's the second address you *must* know in every host.
Once IPv6 went down the path of redrawing the lines between ARP, ICMP, DHCP, etc. from IPv4, it was bound to have made at least one error. It seems clear to me that this was one of those cases. I agree with Brian: the addresses every host IP stack MUST know to operate should be part of SLAAC.

- Mark