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Re: [homenet] A TOFU approach to naming things in the homenet (with code!)

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Mon, 17 April 2017 19:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] A TOFU approach to naming things in the homenet (with code!)
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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> writes:

>> Or put it in DNS under dot-home? Since the client already knows how to
>> speak DNS, this avoids yet another coupling between protocols.
>
> Ah yes, that makes sense; since we have a domain that always refers to
> the homenet, just define a name under that that will return PTRs to the
> zones available for registration.

Hmm, turns out RFC6763 already defines a way to do this (in section 11).
r._dns-sd._udp.<domain>. where <domain> is either the in-addr.arpa zone
derived from the network address of a host address, or "local.". I guess
I'll teach the nsregc client to resolve that...

-Toke

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