Why used DHCPv6 when RA has RDNSS and DNSSL?

[Fernando Gont]

On 31/3/20 12:59, Gert Doering wrote:
> 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.

Probably they don't.


FWIW, it's quite interesting to see the same folks ditching DHCPv6 to 
then complain if SLAAC-based hosts use more addresses than they would like.

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
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