Very good comments; on one point..
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Margaret Wasserman wrote:
> "d) Having an "announcement" protocol that the DNS resolver could
> use to advertize the host route to the nearby router. Details of
> such a protocols are out of scope of this document, but something
> similar to [MLD] is possible."
>
> In my opinion, this section points out one major weakness with
> this approach. We _still_ need some way to configure the location
> of DNS servers in the network... Today, we do that on hosts (often
> using DHCP to provide the information, effectively moving the
> configuration to the DHCP server). This draft proposes moving
> that knowledge off of hosts and DHCP servers, and into the routing
> system, but it doesn't actually specify how the routing system
> will get the information.
Options a) - c) should be sufficient to describe how the routing system
will get the information. Perhaps it should be reworded to be something
like:
d) Developing an "announcement" protocol [...]
[...]. However, the three first mechanisms should
cover the necessary techniques sufficiently for most cases.
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Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall"
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