On 05/07/2012 11:39 AM, Dan Wing wrote:
...
Well, people already use vpn's on the road and in evil places now,
it's just that they're doing it through a corpro vpn back at the
mothership.
I just want to be able to have the same choice when I'm doing this on
my own dime. As it stands, I can't do that for all intents and
purposes.
Apple's Back to My Mac, Microsoft's DirectAccess, and the SIP
VPN method all rely on one important thing: a rendezvous service.
Apple's solution is aimed at consumers and uses Apple's me.com
domain. Microsoft's solution is aimed at corporate users and
uses IT-operated servers. The SIP VPN method uses SIP proxies.
We could imagine someone specifying XMPP for such a thing, too.
But the prototypical "Grandma" does not have access to a
rendezvous service, unless she participates in the Apple
ecosystem (and uses Apple's me.com as the rendezvous service).
I don't know how to make one of these systems work without a
rendezvous service, and it seems nobody else does, either --
all of them rely on some sort of rendezvous service that is
separate from the service provided by the typical residential
ISP.
Ah, but a lot of that thinking seems to be rooted in the v4
mindset where home ip addresses are ephemeral, right? In a v6
world, why can't I just put a AAAA record in some name server
just like everything else on the net that wants to be reached
by name, since the IP subnet I have at home doesn't have to
change on a regular basis due to the need to recycle v4
addresses?
No nat, no dhcp*, no other hacks simplifies this a lot it seems
to me.
Mike
[*] in the rotating ip address sense, not in the discovery sense.
_______________________________________________
homenet mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
