On 13/03/13 22:14, Ted Lemon wrote:
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.
It would be interesting to attempt to prototype this in dnsmasq. Since dnsmasq is already a repository for local names harvested via DHCP or hand-configured, mDNS is an obvious extra source of naming information.
In the latest development version dnsmasq can export that repository (ie act as a target for delegation, or AXFR requests) so that makes possible wide-area discovery of a node on a homenet which a) gets a global IPv6 address and b) advertises itself over mDNS. There's also some basic domain-rewriting in there, it would be interesting to see how that could be generalised to the procedure described in Stuart's draft.
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