>>>>> "Evan" == Evan Hunt <[email protected]> writes:
    >> Do we want applications caching mDNS replies into configuration
    >> files?  I think not, and I think the DNS people will shout loudly
    >> about that.

    Evan> Hm... I'm a DNS people, but I'm not sure I object to this.
    Evan> You'd want some mechanism for clearing old records out after
    Evan> the devices had been gone from the network for a long-enough
    Evan> time, but that's not intrinsically hard.

so, after your ISP renumberers you (not a flash renumber), or if you
change routers (get a new ULA), or change ISPs, you have to discover
your printer again?

    Evan> I'm of the opinion that "remote access from offsite" should be
    Evan> a service you can configure your printer to provide, but which
    Evan> is not the default.

Uhm, so let's seperate discovery, naming, and reachability from
authorization.  (being able to reach it doesn't mean you can print...)

    Evan> In my ideal world (please indulge me in a moment of
    Evan> handwaving), you plug in your printer, and tell it what its
    Evan> name is (or let it pick its own default such as
    Evan> "LaserPrinter-3"); it announces itself to the local network as
    Evan> providing local printing, and its name is placed in the
    Evan> .sitelocal domain.

okay, so far.

    Evan> *If* you check the box for "let the outside world print to me"
    Evan> -- which you and I might want to do but most people wouldn't

I agree that this is a box.  I'd like to see some more authentication
and authorization things happen, but that's a detail for CUPS/IPP.

What's relevant here is that we have a new requirement for sitelocal
mDNS:

 we need to signal via mDNS from the printer to the holder of the FQDN
zone (probably the CPE).   

-- 
Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works 

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