Give Ubuntu a rational IPv6 out-of-the-box support
at the moment it is not possible to install Ubuntu in a IPv6-only environment, also there is no way to get fundamental options (such as DNS server) with stateless IPv6 configuration. This blueprint shall identify a single default-
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there are 3 method for configuring IPv6 and none is supported during setup: manual IPv6 setup is not supported and is also difficult to use during setup; the second is stateless (router adverisement) that doesn't work because during setup the network card expects an IPv4 only address, also stateless configuration require a client RDNS client package to be already listening for RDNS/DNS router advertisement, the ubuntu IPv6 stack itself is incapable to receive such stateless options (it needs a package such ad RDNSS that is not installed by default). The third method is DHCPv6, but Ubuntu needs a package called wide-dhcpv6-server that needs a client package called wide-dhcpv6-client that is not installed by default.
The problem is that since all the client packages are not installed by default there is not to retrieve them from the internet because there is no way to be configured to do so, thus leaving the admin in a configuration loop.
