RE: "RFC 2461bis" issue: DNS configuration

[Soliman Hesham <H.Soliman@flarion.com>]

 > I haven't been on this list very long so I'm unaware of the 
 > reasons to 
 > revisit 2461 and I don't know whether the following issue has been 
 > discussed, but:
 > 
 > Why is there no mechanism to learn DNS addresses through router 
 > advertisements?
 > 
 > It is currently possible to attach a host to a link with one or more 
 > IPv6 routers and have the host automatically discover all the 
 > paramaters needed to connect to the IPv6 internet... except DNS 
 > servers.
 > 
 > This is the absolute number one annoyance when running IPv6.

=> A couple of years ago there was a DT that compared several
different ways of achieving this. The proposal you mentioned
was one of those addressed. The DT settled on assigning
3 different site-local addresses that can be reserved for 
DNS servers. The solution was documented in a draft (I believe
Itojun, Alain and Dave Thaler co-authored it). But this idea
didn't get concensus in the WG and I think the draft is dead
now but I'm not sure. DHCPv6 allows for DNS configuration in
hosts among other things.

Hesham

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