On 10 Sep 2012, at 13:58, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Using literal addresses is evil for many reasons - surely we don't need to > discuss that ancient question again? I wasn't promoting it, just noting that this is the current position, with Bonjour et al becoming the "preferred" way. The latter is "a good thing". > The right question is whether DNS is the appropriate solution for converting > local devices names to addresses, or whether there is some other naming > service that > should be the standard. Since DNS is the IETF standard for converting names > to addresses, there would need to be a pretty strong case for anything else. The IETF has _other_ protocols for naming services (mDNS, LLMNR) that are designed for local networks, albeit with the "wrong" multicast scope as far as we're concerned. My question is therefore more about whether (internal) unicast DNS is actually required at all. Ray _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
