Why used DHCPv6 when RA has RDNSS and DNSSL?

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Tue Mar 31 17:59:09 CEST 2020


Hi,

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 02:30:46AM +0200, Roger Wiklund wrote:
> When I read DHCPv6 vs SLAAC it often boils down to "control" but I don't
> see the need to allocate a dynamic address if the autogenerated are used.

"control" in the sense of "the management station can see which client
is reachable under which IPv6 address"...  and possibly "and put in proper
forward and reverse DNS entries".

So, managed networks tend to like DHCPv6 (DNS!), and wonder how they
should cope with Android.

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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