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Re: easy to remember addresses and /etc/hosts and DNS

Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com> Fri, 26 April 2019 09:47 UTC

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From: Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 19:46:48 +1000
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Subject: Re: easy to remember addresses and /etc/hosts and DNS
To: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, Philip Homburg <pch-ipv6-ietf-6@u-1.phicoh.com>, 6man WG <ipv6@ietf.org>
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On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 at 19:28, Alexandre Petrescu
<alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Le 26/04/2019 à 06:31, Brian E Carpenter a écrit :
> >
> >
> > Regards Brian Carpenter
> >
> > On 25-Apr-19 21:48, Philip Homburg wrote: ...
> >> The main example you gave is somebody typing IPv6 literals while
> >> sitting in a car.
> >
> > Indeed, we said from the very beginning (I mean 1994) that users
> > should never be required to type in IPv6 addresses.
> >
> > Is this so hard to avoid?
>
> It may be easy to avoid typing IPv6 addresse when DNS was available.
>
> But think about three cars in a covoy; the convoy is disconnected from
> the IPv6 Internet, yet fully connected on IPv6 between all computers in
> the convoy.  Which of the cars should host the DNS server?
>

All of them.

http://www.multicastdns.org/

Multicast DNS
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6762.txt

There's also a good book on it:

""Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596101007


A number of implementations:

https://www.avahi.org/ - Linux

https://developer.apple.com/bonjour/ - Apple, Windows

And if you want to know what inspired it,

"Requirements for a Protocol to Replace the AppleTalk Name Binding
Protocol (NBP)"
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6760

This is why you need to explain your problem, not just what you think
is the solution. You'll get much quicker answers.

<snip>

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