Re: [mdnsext] Hierarchical (host) domain names in mDNS?

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Albrecht, Harald <
harald.albrecht@siemens.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply,
>
> control over the software stack is right down to one of the problems:
> there is not a single software stack, there are multiple ones, so while we
> may have control over some of our own stacks, we won't have over the ones
> already out in the wild and which we want to interoperate with. Maybe a
> change would be possible, but my view is that this would first need
> consensus (where exactly? here in this group?) and in the "worst cast" an
> update to the RFC. Would this be a feasible approach at all?
>
> Harald,

As I said previously, if your application provides a qualified domain name
ending in
".local" or ".local." then what you propose should work fine with an
mDNS-aware
resolver.  It is the TLD ".local" that triggers the behavior to multicast
the request to
port 5353.  What an mDNS-aware resolver won't do is to append ".local" to a
multi-
label host name if your application omits it.

IMO, this does not constitute "full control of the stack", nor is an update
to RFC 6762
required.  This is not a difficult experiment to set up; I have tried it
with OS X and
Ubuntu LTS.  You can ensure it works on Windows by installing Bonjour for
Windows.

-K-

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> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: mdnsext-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:mdnsext-bounces@ietf.org] Im
> > Auftrag von Andrew Sullivan
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. Juli 2013 17:15
> > An: mdnsext@ietf.org
> > Betreff: Re: [mdnsext] Hierarchical (host) domain names in mDNS?
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:49:11AM -0400, Kerry Lynn wrote:
> >
> > > the hen house.  One should still expect "controller.machine2.local."
> > > to resolve properly,
> >
> > Yes, if you tried to resolve "controller.machine2.local.", then it
> _would_
> > resolve correctly.  The difficulty, however, is that most resolving
> applications
> > don't actually work truly fully-qualified that way (i.e. by appending
> the final
> > dot).  So it will work fine if you have special name-handling code to
> make
> > sure that everything is actually really fully qualified always in local.
>  I think it
> > would be extremely wise to test how well that works in practice, but
> those
> > who have complete control over their application stack and so on might be
> > able to do it.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > A
> >
> > --
> > Andrew Sullivan
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