Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-dnsext-mdns-01.txt

"Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com> Tue, 10 July 2001 15:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-dnsext-mdns-01.txt
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>         Title           : Multicast DNS

> Today, with the rise of home networking, there are an increasing
> number of ad-hoc networks operating without a DNS server. In order
> to allow DNS name resolution in such environments, the use of a
> multicast DNS is proposed.

Since this protocol is for local-only environments rather than being a
generic "multicast DNS" which can be used in any environment, and since
there is the potential at some point for the latter to be developed and
deployed, I would like to request that the document and protocol labels be
changed to something that more accurately reflects their scope and usage
models.

This may seem like a minor nit but this exact same issue has come up
before with other "multicast" protocols which weren't, and it causes a
great deal of confusion that is easily avoided.

Thanks

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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-dnsext-mdns-01.txt Eric A. Hall