On 13 Mar 2013, at 22:14, Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 13, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Michael Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: >> This just doesn't make any sense to me. mDNS is typically used to do an >> A/AAAA lookup. And mDNS isn't global, so it wouldn't do me much good if >> I were in Brazil. So I don't think this is a solution at all, and it >> definitely >> doesn't seem to have anything to do with mDNS. To my mind, what would >> be useful is for the device to populate a repository (zeroconf or not) via >> an existing or tweaked DNS protocols (ixfr?). > > Stuart Cheshire has a draft describing how to populate a DNS zone using mDNS. > It's not a bad idea, although I don't think the architecture document > should mention it—there is at least one other alternative, and by mentioning > solely mDNS we are making a decision that I don't think has general agreement.
Agreed - so the word "zeroconf" could be removed from before the word "device", which then leaves that open. Tim _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
