On 15 Mar 2003, Johan Ihren wrote:
> I'm all in favour of talking about DNS discovery, that's a worthwhile
> subject. However, to my mind the real issue is discovery mechanisms in
> general, not only DNS. As long as we stay micro focused on "dns
> discovery", "foo discovery" and "bar discovery" I fear that we'll keep
> on finding individual mechanisms rather than a generic method.
> 
> Unfortunately the more generic discussion doesn't seem well suited for
> DNSOP.

Indeed, this is a worry.

However, DNS could be argued to be sufficiently special.

For instance, I have run DHCPv4 here in the IETF network basically just to
find the DNS servers.  If I wanted to run in IPv6-only operation, I'd have
to configure the server manually, run DHCPv6 or whatever.  I'm not at all
interested in configuring search paths, NTP, Foo, or Bar in "visiting"  
networks.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

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