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jeff_marshall

How are you getting DNS configuration (server + search domain) via SLAAC?

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With the RDNSS + DNSSL options for Router Advertisement (RFC standard since 2010), described here:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6106#section-5

If you know a RA implementation that does not support this, please tell.

Or IPv4 DHCP, if you're not IPv6-only.

You might not want to rely on a soon to be declared historic protocol for essential network configuration...

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-howard-sunset4-v4historic-...

(This draft will probably expire, but shots are fired)

Edit: Here is a PDF that describes what deprecating IPv4 means

http://ipv6.sa/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/IPv4_historic.pdf

well, at least as recently as Windows 8.1[1], windows was on that list and microsoft said to use DHCP for that (which has always bugged me as it's yet another protocol to support).

Have things changed? I haven't checked on win 10.

[1] https://www.ernw.de/download/ERNW_Whitepaper_IPv6_RAs_RDNSS_...

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