On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Michael Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> Is this fundamentally different than the service provided by e.g.
DynDNS - the ability to update a publicly visible FQDN binding?

-K-

>
> 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.
>
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