IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

Glen Kent glen.kent at gmail.com
Fri Dec 23 09:24:46 UTC 2011


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> If you get DNS servers from RA and from DHCP, throw them all in the candidate DNS server list. Unless something is broken, any one of them should work and provide the same answers as the others.
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> You can't get NTP from SLAAC/RA, so, no conflict there. If the router and dhcp server administrators can't agree on the DNS search list, then, you're going to have some problems no matter what protocol you use, so, I really think this is a tempest in a teacup.

You can get NTP from RA
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bcd-6man-ntp-server-ra-opt-00




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