Comment by PunchyHamster

And yet DHCPv6 is pretty much the standard because you need to push other things into client.

Need I remind you that option to push DNS server (which is pretty fucking important option!) was added to IPv6 standard only in 2007 ?

Like, someone decided "yeah have that magical stateless autoconfig thing" and didn't figure out that basic options like DNS, or less common but still VERY useful like the PXE stuff, or NTP server, routes and dozen others DHCP does? (there are security implications too but DHCP wasn't great here too)

IPv6 in its original format was a joke and stateless configuration is more or less pointless excercise aside from link-local adresses but those could be only exception where stateless runs