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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by jacob019 on Monday March 06, 2023 @09:32PM (#35050808)
SLAAC can advertise the DNS server. Why would you call stateful DHCP bad?
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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition... by dmm on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:34PM (#35101425)
> SLAAC can advertise the DNS server.

RFC6106 ? You're right that works. I was just trying to communicate the unobjectionable nature of stateless DHCPv6.

Stateful DHCPv6 is bad because it undermines the concept of hosts selecting their own addresses as needed for privacy, tethering, etc.

The decade old Android issue where Google refuses to implement stateful DCHPv6 provides some good background: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36949085#comment53

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