Re: [homenet] Updating DNS [was: How many people have installed the homenet code?]

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

DNS update is pretty simple.   Any problem with using that?

I think you may be slightly conclusing "authoritative" and "primary."
There is no need to elect authoritative servers--just make them secondary
to the elected primary.   You can't have two primaries with stock
DNS--that's probably the biggest fly in the ointment.

The reason to have a hybrid proxy is because we have to support existing
devices.   Clearly it's not the right long-term solution, but we can't
force vendors to implement something new if they don't want to.


On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Ray Hunter (v6ops) <[e-mail]>
wrote:

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> Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>
> 11 May 2016 18:37
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>> > I don't like the hybrid proxy model either.  It promises the union of
>> > the problems and intersection of the functionality.  Proxying flies in
>> > the face of the trend of smart devices and dumb networks.
>>
>> Very well put.
>>
>
> Be that as it may, Homenet in general flies in the face of that trend.
> And if you think about it, that trend isn't really a very smart trend,
> because the burden it places on devices is extreme, and not all devices
> have infinite resources to spend mapping the network and figuring out how
> to publish their services on it.
>
> But if we were to build a smart network from scratch, I also wouldn't
> start with proxies, nor maintain a distributed database in the hosts.
>
> I'd start with letting the routers build a naming infra, together with
> defining a (simple) name registration protocol between host and on-link
> router(s) (together with conflict resolution to communicate "sorry, that
> names already taken")
>
> And the starting point would then probably be HNCP + DNS to elect a max of
> 'n' authoritative name servers per homenet, where 'n' NS and AAAA records
> can fit it a single UDP packet.
>
> So whether you prefer a "smart host" or "smart network" model, hybrid
> proxies seem a poor compromise.
>
> --
> regards,
> RayH
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