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[71attendees] DNS servers in RAs (Was: instructions for v6 on RHEL/Fedora

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Thu, 13 March 2008 21:49 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Stig Venaas <stig.venaas@uninett.no>
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:43:31PM +0100,
 Stig Venaas <stig.venaas@uninett.no> wrote 
 a message of 23 lines which said:

> > 2) Because the DHCPv6 server doesn't seem to offer DNS information (and in
> >     any case, old DHCPv6 client reportedly doesn't even work very well),
> >     there is no need to run DHCPv6 client.  Manual configuration of DNS
> >     servers can be done in the init script like above.
> 
> I got IPv6 DNS server addresses just fine. Using Gentoo Linux and
> dibbler as dhcpv6 client.

Why not using RFC 5006 as well, for people who prefer RA?

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