Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

[owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)]

> On Jun 9, 2015, at 09:22 , Matthew Kaufman <matthew at matthew.at> wrote:
> 
> On 6/8/2015 11:35 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
>>>> We're in the beginning steps of bringing up IPv6 at the fairly large
>>>> university where I work. We plan to use DHCPv6 rather than SLAAC for a
>>>> variety of reasons. One of our guys recently noticed that Android has no
>>>> support for DHCPv6, and a rather odd issue thread discussing it:
>> curious about the reasoning, for what is probably singular devices on a LAN ?
> 
> Lack of RDNSS support in Windows? That's the complication on my IPv6-only network.
> 
> Matthew Kaufman

As a general rule, Windows is a significant complication on any network forced to deal with its users.

This is not limited to IPv6.

Owen