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Re: [dhcwg] What sorts of services does DHCP configure?

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Tue, 15 October 2013 02:09 UTC

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On Oct 14, 2013, at 10:02 PM, Sheng Jiang <jiangsheng@huawei.com> wrote:
> I am not sure your definition of node-specific here. For me, if the IMAP configuration has one fixed value within the DHCP server managed domain, it is network-specific and may be suitable for DHCP configuration.

That's a pretty big if.   How would the node know?   How would it securely reject IMAP configurations that would be harmful?

> For what your called node-specific, I guess it is more suitable to call network-independent configuration because they don't change when the node changes attached networks; or Application-specific configuration for that many examples in my mind are application relevant. My concern for them are two: a) is there any harm to do it through DHCP; b) is there better alternative over DHCP.

I think network-independent is not a bad idea, although maybe network-location-independent is more clear, since of course all of the things we are talking about are dependent on the network.   I agree with you that (a) and (b) are good questions to ask.

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