"prefix delegation" is a feature of DHCPv6. if you're using prefix delegation, you're using DHCPv6. edit: as to the general usefulness of DHCPv6, i have it turned on everywhere here so i can assign ...

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announced it is planning to patch versions of its DHCP to mitigate a denial of service vulnerability. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) this week announced ...

Directory services is one of the most interesting and crucial parts of computing today. They provide our account management, basic authentication, address books and a back-end repository for the ...

The next version of the popular DHCP server Kea is gradually maturing, but before that, the manufacturer is releasing extensions as open source and for testing. The Kea-DHCP software package, which is ...

Two potential buffer overflow flaws have been found in the Internet Systems Consortium’s (ISC) DHCP 3 application. The flaws could be exploited to in a denial-of-service attack against the affected ...

A larger question, though, is how useful DHCP6 really is when—at least as I understand things—the overwhelming majority of folks using IPv6 will turn on prefix delegation + SLAAC and call it done.