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

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Tue, 16 July 2013 15:14 UTC

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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

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