On 4-aug-2005, at 9:22, Perry Lorier wrote:
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.
Apple implements this as Bonjour (formerly Rendezvous), and see
http://www.zeroconf.org/
I've seen Bonjour/Rendezvous work over IPv6 without trouble, but
sometimes the availability of different ways to do the same thing (v4
+v6, wireless/ether) complicates things a bit.
The use of multicast DNS, or possibly dynamic DNS, is more
appropriate for discovering services than DHCP or RA, because it
allows hosts offering services to advertise those services
autonomously rather than requiring an admin to add them to the DHCP
server or router. (Or having to implement complex new mechanisms to
make this happen automatically.)
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