actually, SLP seems like a much better fit than DNS for the problem of discovering hosts on an ad hoc network - not just because SLP is desinged to work without an third-party server but also because "service discovery" seems to fit the likely use model better than "host name lookup".
in particular, you've got no good way of ensuring unique and meaningful host names for hosts on an ad hoc network - they can't assert their normal DNS names (even if they have such) because such assertions might conflict with DNS, or with one another - so it doesn't match DNS "one RRset per name" semantics at all. and the very notion of zero configuration seems to imply that such hosts don't know what their (human meaningful, user assigned) names are - they can at most advertise what service(s) they provide and their serial #s and let applications look for them. Keith -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
