IMHO, this is an entirely inappropriate use of DHCP. Mail submission
should not be dependent on, or constrained by. network topology. The
existing DHCPv4 option should be deprecated or at least discouraged.
Keith
On May 27, 2005, at 5:04 AM, Cristian Cadar wrote:
Dear all,
I was asked by the IETF DHC members to post this question here asking
for your opinion. I have recently submitted an IETF draft on SMTP
option
for DHCPv6 protocol suite and presented my draft
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-cadar-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-
smtp-00.t
xt during the last IETF meeting.
There is already a standardized SMTP option for DHCPv4. My question
is:
Do you know any implementation where SMTP option is used by
somebody for
delegating IPv4 SMTP server addresses to the clients? do you think
that
the SMTP option for DHCPv6 will be used in the future by the email
clients?
Thank you in advance
Regards,
Cristian Cadar
NEC Europe Ltd.