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Re: [dnssd] Security through Obscurity

RJ Atkinson <rja.lists@gmail.com> Thu, 24 July 2014 16:28 UTC

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On 24  Jul 2014, at 11:54 , Kennedy, Smith (Wireless Architect) wrote:
> Why in your opinion is it “operationally desirable” for the printer
> to have a predictable IPv6 address?  


The most common reason that my clients give me is that 
predictable/deterministic IP addressing lowers their 
operating costs.  Larger enterprises often use DHCP 
to obtain this.  Smaller enterprises find DHCP complex
to deploy/configure, but they still want predictable
addressing in their IP network deployments.

And this is not just for printers, but also for other devices
offering shared services -- file servers or whatever else.

Yours,

Ran

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