host-identifier with IPv6

Ted Lemon Ted.Lemon at nominum.com
Tue Mar 3 00:08:35 UTC 2009


On Mar 2, 2009, at 4:44 PM, David W. Hankins wrote:
> But assigning specific single IAADDRs is part of the protocol, and it
> is also what we are talking about.  I think we're all pretty
> comfortable with how to guide additional configuration parameters.

> I was curious how Nominum solves the problem raised in this thread
> with any ease, but it seems to me that your solution is not to solve
> it?

We don't do the static lease thing - we have a really fast back-end  
database, so it's no skin off our nose to allocate "fixed addresses"  
dynamically.   The way we do reservations is to mark an IP address  
from a pool as "reserved," and then we have logic that looks at the  
incoming request from the client and decides whether to try to  
associate with that lease or not.   If the lease isn't available, no  
association occurs, which means that we don't violate the protocol.    
So if the association logic can match more than one client, there's a  
potential for the second client that matches not to get the fixed  
address.




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