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. > > ______________________________**_________________ > homenet mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/**listinfo/homenet<https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet> >
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