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Re: [dnsop] WGLC for "IPv6 Host Configuration of DNS Server Information Approaches"

Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Wed, 23 June 2004 18:47 UTC

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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:13:51 +0100
From: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: dnsop@lists.uoregon.edu
Subject: Re: [dnsop] WGLC for "IPv6 Host Configuration of DNS Server Information Approaches"
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On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:38:41PM +0900, JINMEI Tatuya / ?$B?@L@C#:H wrote:

> 8. Section 3.2 (DHCPv6 Option)
> 
>    DHCPv6 currently provides a mechanism for reconfiguring DHCPv6 
>    clients.  [...]
> 
> In my understanding, DHCPv6 reconfigure can only be used for the
> "stateful" mode of the protocol.  At very least, RFC3736 does not
> require implementing reconfigure message, so implementations that only
> conform to RFC3736 may not support reconfigure mechanism.
> 
> I believe this document should explicitly note this limitation.

I think this is the rationale for Stig's lifetime draft for other
configured options using Stateless DHCPv6...  this was to cater for 
planned renumbering of DNS, NTP or other servers:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dhc-lifetime-00.txt

tim
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