Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

Don,

Yes, based on, and it will be good to see those RFCs out.

What I'm basically worried about here is ending up with one
toolset for homenets and a different toolset for small enterprise
networks, which seem much more likely to go the DNS way than anything
else. In practice there's no hard and fast boundary between home and
small business.

  Brian

On 10/09/2012 15:17, Don Sturek wrote:
> Bonjour is based on mDNS
> (http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns/) and
> DNS-SD (http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cheshire-dnsext-dns-sd/),
> both currently in the RFC editors queue.....
> 
> Don
> 
> On 9/10/12 6:53 AM, "Brian E Carpenter" <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/09/2012 14:09, Ray Bellis wrote:
>>> On 10 Sep 2012, at 13:58, Brian E Carpenter
>>> <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Using literal addresses is evil for many reasons - surely we don't
>>>> need to
>>>> discuss that ancient question again?
>>> I wasn't promoting it, just noting that this is the current position,
>>> with Bonjour et al becoming the "preferred" way.  The latter is "a good
>>> thing".
>> afaik Bonjour is a proprietary protocol. How can that be a good thing?
>>
>>>> The right question is whether DNS is the appropriate solution for
>>>> converting
>>>> local devices names to addresses, or whether there is some other
>>>> naming service that
>>>> should be the standard. Since DNS is the IETF standard for converting
>>>> names
>>>> to addresses, there would need to be a pretty strong case for anything
>>>> else.
>>> The IETF has _other_ protocols for naming services (mDNS, LLMNR) that
>>> are designed for local networks, albeit with the "wrong" multicast scope
>>> as far as we're concerned.
>> And SLP, explicitly designed for locating services.
>>
>>> My question is therefore more about whether (internal) unicast DNS is
>>> actually required at all.
>> And I'm saying that's the wrong question.
>>
>> I think the right question is whether there is an *open* standard for
>> discovering
>> service addresses from service names that is more suitable than DNS.
>>
>>    Brian
>>
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