Re: [v6tc] Tunnel endpoint discovery summary/tradeoffs

Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@Sun.COM> Wed, 22 December 2004 21:15 UTC

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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:54:22 -0800
From: Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: [v6tc] Tunnel endpoint discovery summary/tradeoffs
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To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
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On Dec 22, 2004, at 11:34 AM, Pekka Savola wrote:
> At this point, the most important issue wrt. solutions is to 
> understand key implications between using forward DNS (using the DNS 
> search path) and reverse DNS (looking up information at your IP 
> address), but the tradeoffs will be analyzed at more depth in the 
> revision of draft-palet-v6ops-tun-auto-disc.

Another open issue is the re-use of existing RR in the DNS (regardless 
of the forward/reverse tree issue)
or the creation of a new one, as recommended by the IAB.

Summarizing the issues with forward DNS:
	- does not map the physical topology
	- does not work well for large domain
	- assume that the local domain configured at the customer site is the 
ISP one and not a private one

Summarizing the issues with reverse DNS:
	- requires population of large trees, instead of just one record.
	- does not work well for addresses behind a NAT, some more or less ugly
	  work around exists.	

	- Alain.


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