Re: [dhcwg] Re: WG last call on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-dnsconfig-02.txt

[Mika Liljeberg <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 08:25, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Alain Durand wrote:
> > On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 12:03  PM, Ralph Droms wrote:
> > > If it's unclear, then we should edit the document to explicitly 
> > > identify the addresses as IPv6 addresses.
> > >
> > > This option is intended to return IPv6 configuration information.  
> > > IPv4 addresses for DNS resolvers should be provided through DHCPv4...
> 
> I symphatize with this -- there are some uses to have DHCPv6 return IPv4
> addresses too -- but the result would just make the dnsconfig option more
> complex for little benefit.  Let's face it: if you deploy DHCPv6, you
> really should have long since deployed IPv6-enabled nameservers too.
> 
> So, I think clarifying the scope to do only IPv6 seems like the best 
> option by far.

Is that necessary? IPv4 addresses can be returned in IPv4 Mapped format
if necessary. Just add some text explaining this. With our hybrid
IPv4/IPv6 stack implementation this would work out of the box.

	MikaL

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