DHCPv6-4.1.mumble
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
Thu Jun 12 16:25:05 UTC 2008
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:02:29PM +0100, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
>
> On 12 Jun 2008, at 16:38, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>
> >what I want is for the domain nameservrer option to do what
> >is advertized... to pass a list of IP addresses to the client.
> >
> >it doesn't in the ISC code. It selectively presumes to know
> >better than the person writing the config file what valid
> >IP addresses for domain name servers are.
>
> I think Evan's point was, that it's not about what can
> be parsed as "valid IP addresses for domain name servers",
> but rather what can be placed in the list of 32-bit
> words defined as the payload format for option 6.
>
> Or maybe there's a second layer of cross-purposes in this
> discussion?
>
> /Niall
>
No second layer. the prior assertion that option 6
was "unstructured" turns out to be false... that pesky
32bit word thing.
This is going to be harder than it appears at first blush.
May take a couple of weeks.
--bill
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