On 10/09/2012 14:09, Ray Bellis wrote:
> 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".
afaik Bonjour is a proprietary protocol. How can that be 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.
And SLP, explicitly designed for locating services.
> My question is therefore more about whether (internal) unicast DNS is
> actually required at all.
And I'm saying that's the wrong question.
I think the right question is whether there is an *open* standard for
discovering
service addresses from service names that is more suitable than DNS.
Brian
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