Abhijit Chaudhary (abchaudh) wrote: > Hi, > I have question regarding IPv6 auto service discovery. > > Suppose a IPv6 Mobile Host comes and joins a network. Using Stateful or > Stateless Address Configuration mentioned in ICMPv6 Router > Advertisement message it gets a IPv6 address. > But if the mobile host want to know the nearest printer IP address or > the proxy address or DNS server address (i.e, IP address of Responder > mentioned in draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-name-lookups-12.txt). > Is there any draft or RFC that talks about a procedure to get > information about Server providing application Service for IPv6?
I would have thought it would use DNS Service Discovery/Multicast DNS. http://www.multicastdns.org/ http://www.dns-sd.org/ While these protocols are mostly used under IPv4, I forsee[1] no reason why they shouldn't work in a mixed v6/v6 only network without change. They are well deployed already by being built into MacOS X, and some other platforms. [1]: I've not carefully studied these protocols however, so I suggest you consult others before declaring that these are ready for v6. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
