Comment by simoncion

> ...the old adage “IPv6 haters don’t understand IPv6” applies.

I'm an IPv6 hater. Sure. [0][1][2]

> ...RFC 6106...

Yes. I'm quite aware of the RDNSS field in RAs. In past experience from ten-ish years ago, [3] I found that it is unreliably recognized... some systems would use the data in it, and others would only ignore it. In contrast, DHCPv6 worked fine on everything I tested it on except for Android. Might this be because RFC 6106 was published in 2010, while RFC 3315 ("stateful" DHCPv6) was published in 2003, and RFC 3736 ("stateless" DHCPv6) was published in 2004? Maybe.

> ...RFC 6016 actually supersedes RFC 5006 from 2007.

An attentive reader notes that RFC 5006 is an experimental RFC. It took another four years for a non-experimental version of the standard to be published.

So, anyway. Yeah, I should have said

  Things like NTP and (sometimes) DNS and that other good stuff...

Whoops. But, my point stands... how do you communicate to clients the network's preferred NTP servers or nearly all of the other stuff that DHCPv6 communicates if one choses to use only SLAAC?

[0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47101182>

[3] Perhaps things have gotten better in the intervening years? Should I find myself bored as hell one evening, I'll see what the state of device/OS support is.