renumbering and roaming

Tue May 19 18:44:29 UTC 1998

On 19 May 1998 08:06:24 -0400, William Allen Simpson <wsimpson at greendragon.com> wrote:
|Speaking as the author of "LCP Extensions", there is no such LCP
|extension as "dynamically-assigned DNS servers".
|
|There is a bogus, NDA'd, Mircosoft-only, NetBEUI extension to PPP IPCP,
|using numbers stolen from the high end of the option space without
|registering with IANA, which is marginally applicable to DNS.
|
|This approach has been officially rejected by the IETF.  It is not a
|"best current practice".  It only works with NT servers, which no sane
|and stable ISP would use.

FWIW, almost all of the NAS's in production today support Microsoft's PPP
extensions for dynamically assigned DNS servers.  Like it or not, it's
something that we have to live w/today.  

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