Re: [rtcweb] [MMUSIC] What goes into c= line address when FQDN is used for the default candidate?

[Roman Shpount <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 10:03 AM Alan Ford <[e-mail]> wrote:

> If that update was to be made, this goes against the text
> in draft-ietf-rtcweb-mdns-ice-candidates-02 which says:
>
>    An ICE agent that supports mDNS candidates MUST support the situation
>    where the hostname resolution results in more than one IP address.
>    In this case, the ICE agent MUST take exactly one of the resolved IP
>    addresses and ignore the others.  The ICE agent SHOULD, if available,
>    use the first IPv6 address resolved, otherwise the first IPv4
>    address.
>

This is obviously not going to work. At the very minimum ICE client should
be listening for connectivity checks on all addresses to which FQDN
candidate resolves, including IPv4 and IPv6. It also should do connectivity
checks to all addresses. Otherwise, if you have two clients, one dual stack
and another single stack, they are not going to see each other, since one
will be listening and sending connectivity checks via IPv6 and another via
IPv4. This is why language about FQDN was removed from mmusic-ice-sip-sdp
-- it was broken.

For ICE to work, you want to include all possible addresses for FQDN in the
candidate list and then proceed with nomination as if they were independent
candidates.

But there’s a bigger problem here, which is how to cope with an FQDN is not
> resolvable. So the intention, as I understand it, is that when these host
> candidates leave the mDNS domain and are thus not resolvable, they will be
> treated as peer reflexive candidates.
>
> But at that point there is no address family information available, so how
> does an ICE agent know to do pairing with these candidates, which requires
> the address family to be known?
>

I do not think this is a problem. For peer reflexive candidates, ICE agent
knows address family/local address/port where connectivity check was
received and the address family/remote address/port from which the
connectivity check was received. Everything, including the address family
is known in this case and agent can proceed with nomination as with any
other peer reflexive candidate.

Regards,
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Roman Shpount