Ahem, who says Bonjour is becoming the "preferred" way?
Last time I checked, I had to download and install additional
(proprietary) software to use Bonjour, and it didn't work across a router.
Multicast DNS has significant implications for power consumption for
nodes that wish to sleep, and mandatory support for site-wide multicast
would also make demands on Homenet routers e.g. PIM? MLD?
Anyone claiming this is the preferred way should also have a good answer
to those issues.
regards
RayH
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".
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
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