Hi, Jumping in here with the perpective of a «dumb user» who spent the weekend playing with the Homenet implementation in OpenWrt 15.05...
(Note that I don't know whether my comments pertain to the Homenet standards themselves or are specific to the OpenWrt implementation.) * Markus Stenberg <[email protected]> > On 31.8.2015, at 13.16, Henning Rogge <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does homenet even need a “central" DNS server? > > No. It is per link, not per home. After converting my main router to Homenet mode (leaving the other one as a dumb layer-2 bridge) I was initially happy to see that URIs such as http://scanner worked and that I could do "ssh myserver" and so on. This was of course because the DNS search path had been set up as "lan.mainrouter.home", and "server.lan.mainrouter.home" resolved fine. If I connected via Wifi, I could no longer use unqualified names to reach the server living on the wired LAN segment, but the fully qualified one would still work. However as soon as I converted my downstairs router to Homenet mode as well and connected my laptop to the downstairs wireless network, I could no longer use names to access the server (short or fully qualified). It appears the DNS server in each router only knows about its immediate neighbours. That was a rather big bummer, to be honest. This and broken WiFi roaming were the only two things that made me want to go back to my old non-Homenet setup (or more likely somewhere in between, with only 1 Homenet-enabled router). Otherwise I was very pleased with how nice everything worked. Tore _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
