On 02/26/2013 09:19 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: > Homenets aren't zeroconf--there has to be a way, at a minimum, to > communicate a prefix and a DNS server address. This can be done > with RA, or with RA+stateless DHCPv6, or with stateful DHCPv6. So > in a homenet we can expect that there _will_ be a mechanism that > _could_ be made to work for setting up DNS; the questions are: > > (1) Which ways do we support, if any?
Stupid question: Can we enforce requirements on host implementations as a result of homenet? (e.g., among all the nice pieces of DDNS, how many of them are widely implemented? and if not widely implemented, can we push changes in this area?) If we cannot do that, but can spec functionality in, say, home routers, then something along the lines of what I sketched in my previous email might make more sense. > (2) How do we resolve the question of who is the local DNS server? You mean the authoritative DNS server for nodes in the local network? > As far as I can tell, this whole notion has been punted in favor of > multi-subnet mDNS; my concern is that we are going to wind up with a > new protocol that's a weird amalgam of mDNS and DNS but shares little > code with existing implementations of either protocol/ Since I was not involved in such discussions, just double-checking: I guess the whole argument for DNS had to do with * No need for authoritative servers? * Availability of "local" zones, as opposed to global zones? * Something (technical :-) ) else? I think that it shouldn't be hard to come up with something to make DNS work with local zones, without relying on multicast (and thus avoiding the need to do mDNS). If there's interest in exploring this path, I could give this some thought -- just checking the mDNS thing is not casted into stone, such that I avoid wasting time unnecessarily... Thanks! Best regards, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: [email protected] || [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1 -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
