On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 04:01:35PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> E.g. by definition. Implement this only if you are a CPE or if you
> are 3GPP handset and then only for this class of interface. Or
> such. Those two scenarios are my main focus. Not believe what
> CoffeeShopFreeAP tells.

And why, if you are a CPE, should you believe what you get via DHCP
either?  Lord knows I have seen rogue DHCP announcements on cable
modems.

Moreover, even supposing that's solved, how is the device supposed to
know when it is attached to CoffeeShopFreeAP and when it's attached to
SuperGoodWellMaintainedISPNet?  Isn't it completely ignorant at this
point?

> Well, if the host is openly multihomed and somewhere comes name
> "server", you could append it with all suffixes you know of and try
> resolve then all in parallel, connect in order of successful
> resolution:) .. if you don't know any difference between your
> interfaces.
 
My first response is ick, but that's my first response to all barename
resolution answers[1], so that's not a good test.  I think this is an
area where text is undoubtedly needed.  I'll think about it more, but
I urge others to do the same.

A


[1] The right answer is, of course, "Stop that," but the horse has
fled, the barn burned down, and the horse died years ago.  


-- 
Andrew Sullivan
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Shinkuro, Inc.
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