On Mar 4, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Keith Moore wrote:

> How is my laptop, when it does the DNS dynamic update, supposed to know that 
> it has an external address, and what that address is, so it can include an 
> AAAA record for it?

I spent a lot of time on that in an earlier email, one you chose to not respond 
to. There are two ways: 

(a) it reports the address it knows, and the DNS server infers the other 
addresses, or
(b) it sends an ICMP request to a multicast address, collects zero or more 
responses, and reports what it collects.

I personally prefer (a); we don't have to change your laptop. That said, I 
could use (b) to optimize; if I accept the first response that comes within a 
second or (if it is non-null) the set of responses that come within 100 ms 
(picking numbers out of the air, if you don't like them pick other numbers), 
and I have a network like Cisco's in which DMZs might be several hundred 
milliseconds apart, then I only select addresses that I would actually like a 
peer to use. 
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