On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> If you don't like the idea using the NODE NAME TLV to announce DNS
>> information of the local hosts, how would you do it without a central
>> server configured by a network admin?
>
>  * mDNS plus mDNS proxying; or

you mean a bi-directional proxy between mdns on the host-interface and
some distributed DNS services in the home network?

>  * mDNS over ff05::fb; or

Would not work without a multicast routing protocol.

>  * announce a bunch of dynamic DNS servers (inside or outside the Homenet)
>    over HNCP, use some ad-hoc registration protocol.  This relies on hosts
>    consulting all of the advertised servers when search for an RR.

which still doesn't solve the problem how the hostnames configured on
a homenet router gets into one (or multiple) of these DNS servers.

> Henning, the flooding part of HNCP is just a multicasting protocol with
> some rather unusual characteristics -- marvelously efficient when there is
> no churn, bad in the presence of churn.  Let's use its strengths and avoid
> its weaknesses, not the opposite.

Just to be sure, do you see that the hostname of a router or a host
would change that often?

Henning Rogge

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