alt Hacker NewsThe SLAAC/DHCPv6 combo seems really strange to me.
Either IP/DNS/gateway discovery with one or the other could be tolerable. But allowing combinations such as SLAAC for addressing and DHCP for DNS discovery is lunacy.
It’s as if one said, let’s take the most basic and critical step and make it as complicated as possible and explore the combinatorial explosion…
The article mentions that DHCPv6 was an afterthought because DHCP itself barely existed when IPv6 was being designed - they were still using things like RARP or BOOTP!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Address_Resolution_Pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_Protocol