Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-nisconfig-05.txt

[Tim Chown <[e-mail]>]

The issues draft will be submitted for Monday's deadline so will be
on the table in Seoul (Stig is presenting...)

So #2 might well lead to #1 soon...

Tim

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:17:08PM +0530, Vijayabhaskar A K wrote:
> Solution 1 seems more logical to me.. I support solution 1
> 
> Vijay
> 
> Ralph Droms wrote:
> 
> >The IESG has one remaining comment on this draft (see 
> >https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=print_ballot&ballot_id=896&filename=draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-nisconfig): 
> >
> >
> >  what does a DHCPv6 server do when it wants to indicate that there's 
> >a NIS
> >  server available with an IPv4 address and another NIS server 
> >available with
> >  an IPv6 address?
> >
> >  The two reasons why this can be a silly question:
> >
> >  - NIS wouldn't work with such a config, so all the servers' addresses
> >    obviously have to be one address type
> >  - You can always encode a v4 address as a v6 address using the 
> >96-zeroes
> >    convention (or something else), so it's obvious how to do it
> >
> >  But I think the document should address the issue.
> >
> >We have a couple of alternatives to addressing the issue:
> >
> >1. Reserve DHCPv6 for IPv6 NIS servers and DHCPv4 for IPv4 NIS servers
> >2. Wait until the WG completes its work on DHCPv4/DHCPv6 issues
> >3. Use an encoding to carry IPv4 addresses in the DHCPv6 option; for
> >   example, Vijay suggests:
> >
> >   3. Network Information Service (NIS) Servers Option
> >
> >      The Network Information Service (NIS) Servers option provides a
> >      list of one or more IPv6 addresses of NIS servers available to the
> >      client. If any of the NIS servers is available with an IPv4 
> >address,
> >      then its address will be represented in "IPv4-mapped IPv6 
> >address" [RFC3513]
> >      format. Clients MUST treat the list of NIS servers as an ordered
> >      list.  The server MAY list the NIS servers in the order of
> >      preference.
> >
> >For the DHCPv6 DNS servers option, the WG opted for alternative 1, which
> >seems to me to be the right thing to do for the NIS servers option, as 
> >well.
> >
> >- Ralph
> >
> >
> >
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