Pars Mutaf writes: > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 09:40 -0500, Thomas Narten wrote: > > Pars Mutaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I believe that dot-local DNS (also called multicast DNS) will be > > > even more useful in the future. However, I suspect that there is > > > a problem. For example, in WiMax, a cellular standard, nodes cannot > > > L2 multicast. > > > > Who cares what happens at L2? That is not a concern to IP. > > But we can build new applications comfortably if we know that the > signaling and energy costs were minimized ? > (I mean regardless of L2 specific details)
I suspect that doing so implies the use of point-to-point links (rather than what appears to be broadcast emulation), and reducing energy costs would seem to require having cached data available on the single peer node to avoid querying "everybody." -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
