Question on address configuration

[Robert Elz]

    Date:        Wed, 9 Jan 2002 08:10:21 -0800
    From:        "Matthew Lehman" <mlehman@microsoft.com>
    Message-ID:  <C2A256696D17E44C9ADC95A77FE95997048803B5@red-msg-05.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

  | What about a well-known anycast address for the DNS server to listen on.

This is a fine topic to discuss, though this is not really the right place,
but it has nothing at all to do with the topic that was being discussed
to which you replied.

This thread used to be about a method to configure a node with a user
selected 64 bit token (to use instead of the MAC address) and then have
the node use that exactly as it would the MAC address for auto-configuration.

Currently nodes (that most people seem to have seen anyway) allow only
the MAC address to be used for autoconf of addresses (some may allow the
MAC address to be altered, but doing that isn't the aim) - or they allow
you to manually configure the whole address, which then requires knowledge
of the prefix that apply to the link.

How one finds DNS servers has nothing at all to do with this...

kre