On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:30:26PM +0100,
 Pars Mutaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
 a message of 81 lines which said:

> I used the term .local with no particular reason. If recent advances
> showed that it is unnecessary.

Not unecessary: bad. If I'm correct, it is bad because everyone would
have a ".local" and merging of two organizations would become a
nightmare. It is quite easy and cheap to get a real domain name so
every organization, even non connected, should use one.

> I'm not even sure if my proposal needs to be "local". I can also
> reach other subnets in theory

The domain name in use has nothing to do with the fact that the
protocol is routable or single-link. Different layers.

> But I still don't see why I would send a multicast query if I know
> the destination's unicast address. Sending the DNS query directly to
> the destination may be useful.

Again, *read* draft-ietf-dnsext-mdns-47.txt, the use of unicast is
clearly possible (section 2.4).


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