Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:18:59 -0700
From: "James Kempf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <007301c20c26$994df9b0$1e6015ac@T23KEMPF>
| I think a place to start might be understanding what SLP does and why
| its critics don't like it.
I agree.
Certainly SLP (or even if necessary, a SLP subset) looks like a much
better fit to the problem than anything depending upon well known
addresses (which seems to have as its prime benefit only that no new
code needs to be written to implement it, just pick the addresses and
stick them in the current configuration files - which as a design feature
is about the last consideration I'd be using in choosing a solution)
kre
ps: there's much more info to discover than where a DNS back end is located
(please everyone, stop calling this a DNS server, finding DNS servers isn't
what we need, it is the DNS back end resolver that we are seeking) - the one
which concerns me most is how a host auto-configures its hostname (when it
isn't using DHCP). Though from Keith's messages it seems that someone else
somewhere else might be considering that question. What list was that on
Keith?
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