host-identifier with IPv6

Ted Lemon Ted.Lemon at nominum.com
Tue Mar 3 05:15:38 UTC 2009


On Mar 2, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Frank Sweetser wrote:
> It's really the removal of a field explicitly defined as the
> client hardware address from the client requests that wipes out a  
> lot of my
> current workflow, and, since those million client sites can freely  
> ignore the
> client HW address in favor of the new DUID, its removal feels rather
> gratuitous to those of us who depend on it every day.

Think about what happens with DDNS when the DUID your Mac sends is the  
same whether you use your Airport or your wired ethernet.   The change  
isn't gratuitous.   I'm sorry it feels that way.




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