Why used DHCPv6 when RA has RDNSS and DNSSL?

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Tue Mar 31 12:17:44 CEST 2020



On 31/Mar/20 12:09, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:

> Note that there have been multiple requests for DHCPv6 to do this but
> every attempt has been shot down.

Yep - thankfully, we have an option.

Operating two address assignment protocols is just silly.

At my house, I don't even bother with DHCPv6 for DNS. I just use the
IPv4 ones and let SLAAC assign IPv6 addresses to my devices. Just about
done with the purist madness around this.

Mark.



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