[AfrIPv6-Discuss] Help Get Microsoft to Implement RFC 6106 for Windows

[Daniel Shaw]

> On 20 Jun 2016, at 10:32 PM, Carlos M. Martinez <carlosm3011 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As a data point, in our network we:
> 
> - do run both SLAAC and DHCPv6
> - we send RDNSS info over SLAAC
> - we do provide both IPv4 and IPv6 DNSes via DHCP (v4 and v6 respectively)
> 
> Now it’s less so as we’ve been upgrading machines, but we used to get a significant amount of AAAA queries over v4 coming mostly from Windows machines. 
> 
> I don’t think running both SLAAC and DHCPv6 is a big deal. It’s weird, and it goes against one’s sense of ‘what should be right’, but in practice, it’s not really a problem.


Basically +1 to all points above, apart from not yet bothering to send RDNSS info over SLAAC. But we also run both.

But mostly +1 to the last line - that was what I was getting at with my question. While it “feels” a bit “weird” there is really no problem.

- Daniel