I-D ACTION:draft-aboba-dnsext-mdns-00.txt

Internet-Drafts@ietf.org Fri, 17 March 2000 17:16 UTC

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	Title		: Multicast DNS
	Author(s)	: B. Aboba, L. Esibov, D. Thaler
	Filename	: draft-aboba-dnsext-mdns-00.txt
	Pages		: 10
	Date		: 16-Mar-00
	
Today, with the rise of home networking, there are an increasing number
of small networks operating without a DNS server. In order to allow DNS
name resolution in such environments, the use of a multicast DNS is
proposed.

With wide deployment of the hosts registered with IPv6 addresses by
routers, in the absence of the DHCP server multicast DNS is proposed to
be used to discover available DNS servers, that will be used for unicast
DNS.

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