Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 13/09/2012 21:15, David R Oran wrote: On Sep 13, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: On 09/12/2012 06:57 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:02 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: My machines have names. Those names don't change as I move around the world.

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Baugher
On Sep 11, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Curtis Villamizar wrote: We had a similar discussion before and I pointed out that for security some form of exchange of keys or certificates was needed. Having a factory configured root DNSSEC certificate gets one form of trust anchor. The browser

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-13 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 12, 2012, at 11:54 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: MacOS already supports this so clearly someone at Apple thinks there is a need. No, MacOS doesn't support this. MacOS supports DynDNS-like functionality, not roaming via DNS. And it supports it in the sense that geeks can

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-13 Thread joel jaeggli
On 9/12/12 10:35 PM, Ray Hunter wrote: Fair counter point to my suggestion. Enterprises don't generally put laptops in public viewable DNS. Isn't your requirement to support highly mobile devices a good reason to avoid mDNS wherever possible? MDNS has a purpose, which is to locate on-link

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-13 Thread Ray Hunter
Sure, but the scope of this discussion is name resolution in Homenet, where there is always at least 1 router present. So these two devices could always use unicast to reach a rendezvous point. What devices do on other ephemeral ad hoc networks is out of scope. joel jaeggli

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-13 Thread David R Oran
On Sep 13, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: On 09/12/2012 06:57 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:02 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: My machines have names. Those names don't change as I move around the world. Random DHCP servers at coffee shops DO NOT

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-13 Thread Curtis Villamizar
In message f5927c12-fe26-470f-82ae-f4387d30d...@fugue.com Ted Lemon writes: On Sep 12, 2012, at 2:41 AM, Ray Hunter v6...@globis.net wrote: Ted, respect your DHCP/DNS knowledge, but if we need a DHCP server anyway in Homenet, why don't we go for the classic enterprise set up that has

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-13 Thread Curtis Villamizar
In message 7e23e81a-9daa-45ac-a577-3b0574e1d...@fugue.com Ted Lemon writes: On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:02 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: My machines have names. Those names don't change as I move around the world. Random DHCP servers at coffee shops DO NOT have the ability to update

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-12 Thread Ray Hunter
Ted, respect your DHCP/DNS knowledge, but if we need a DHCP server anyway in Homenet, why don't we go for the classic enterprise set up that has run for years for IPv4, rather than trying to shoe horn locally assigned SLAAC addresses into global DNS? It's not as though you can buy any piece

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:28 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: Which is a UI / product support problem. The Mac has DNS registration under Sharing. It requires manual entry of the TSIG key which currently has to be entered into the nameserver for each device. It could be made as simple as

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-12 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 279cabeb-4dee-45c7-8cf2-8c34eac3c...@fugue.com, Ted Lemon writes: On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:28 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: Which is a UI / product support problem. The Mac has DNS registration under Sharing. It requires manual entry of the TSIG key which currently has

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-12 Thread Ray Hunter
Fair counter point to my suggestion. Enterprises don't generally put laptops in public viewable DNS. Isn't your requirement to support highly mobile devices a good reason to avoid mDNS wherever possible? [mDNS being link local specific, and any extensions/gateways from mDNS to unicast DNS

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-11 Thread Ray Bellis
On 11 Sep 2012, at 02:41, james woodyatt j...@apple.com wrote: Really? How has the architecture team managed to overlook the obvious problem that homenets with interior routing domains comprising multiple networks cannot use either mDNS or LLMNR, which are confined to link-local

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 11/09/2012 08:19, Ray Bellis wrote: ... So the point of the original email was to test that first assumption - i.e. what services don't (or can't) work in-home without a local unicast DNS zone. Excuse my ignorance, but if a LAN has both mDNS and DNS available, what happens when an app calls

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 11/09/2012 14:11, Simon Perreault wrote: Le 2012-09-11 05:17, Brian E Carpenter a écrit : Excuse my ignorance, but if a LAN has both mDNS and DNS available, what happens when an app calls getnameinfo() ? Current situation is: implementation-dependant. In fact, getnameinfo() is not

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-11 Thread Michael Thomas
On 09/11/2012 12:19 AM, Ray Bellis wrote: I shall attempt to clarify. Iff all in-home services can be reached (whilst in-home) by mDNS-like protocols then we do not need an in-home unicast DNS zone. To reach those same services from _outside_ the home does of course need them to exist in the

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-11 Thread Michael Thomas
On 09/11/2012 09:01 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: There are a couple of options being pursued in the DHC working group; the DHCP address registration process would be an obvious mechanism for leveraging DHCP to populate the DNS. The idea here is that you do RA+SLAAC, or RA+CGA, and then you contact

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 11, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: Maybe somebody can educated me, but isn't it a bit dangerous to use an auto-configured address as a way to contact a host? If I change out my ethernet hardware, for example, my auto-conf address would normally change too, right?

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-11 Thread Evan Hunt
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 06:52:16AM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote: So no, let's not start from an assumption that it's an mDNS world in the home. I'd say let's start from the opposite assumption that it's a normal DNS world inside the home where mDNS is a way to auto-populate a DNS repository in

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-11 Thread Evan Hunt
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:37:30PM -0400, Ted Lemon wrote: No. Things change. All that's required to deal with this is that the underlying protocol support it. The DHCP DUID identification system does support this kind of change, as long as the actual device doesn't change. If the

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-11 Thread james woodyatt
On Sep 11, 2012, at 11:07 , Evan Hunt e...@isc.org wrote: This does raise a point, though: Dynamic DNS doesn't have an expiration mechanism. [...] My home zone is cluttered up with the names of a couple of dozen laptops and ipods belonging to neighbors and visitors over the past year.

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-11 Thread Evan Hunt
I recommend reading section 5 of Understanding Apple's Back-to-My-Mac Service [RFC 6281], which gives a brief summary of how this problem is effectively and reliably managed in that system. There you will find references to the following truly under-loved technical specifications:

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-11 Thread Curtis Villamizar
In message 504f65c7.4010...@mtcc.com Michael Thomas writes: On 09/11/2012 09:01 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: There are a couple of options being pursued in the DHC working group; the DHCP address registration process would be an obvious mechanism for leveraging DHCP to populate the DNS. The

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-11 Thread Curtis Villamizar
In message 20120911180743.gd15...@isc.org Evan Hunt writes: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:37:30PM -0400, Ted Lemon wrote: No. Things change. All that's required to deal with this is that the underlying protocol support it. The DHCP DUID identification system does support this kind of

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-10 Thread Hans Liu
FYI !! All of D-Link home routers now support NetBIOS name, mDNS and LLMNR. We removed 192.168.0.1 from device label and Quick Installation Guide already. Best regards, Hans On Sep 10, 2012, at 8:34 PM, Ray Bellis ray.bel...@nominet.org.uk wrote: An interesting question has come up during

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 10/09/2012 13:34, Ray Bellis wrote: An interesting question has come up during the Arch Doc team's discussions around naming and service discovery: What in-home services actually require Unicast DNS lookup? [*] Well, that isn't the right question IMNSHO. The one obvious case is in-home

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-10 Thread Ray Bellis
On 10 Sep 2012, at 13:58, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: Using literal addresses is evil for many reasons - surely we don't need to discuss that ancient question again? I wasn't promoting it, just noting that this is the current position, with Bonjour et al becoming the

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-10 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 01:58:46PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote: The right question is whether DNS is the appropriate solution for converting local devices names to addresses, or whether there is some other naming service that should be the standard. Since DNS is the IETF standard for

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Don, Yes, based on, and it will be good to see those RFCs out. What I'm basically worried about here is ending up with one toolset for homenets and a different toolset for small enterprise networks, which seem much more likely to go the DNS way than anything else. In practice there's no hard and

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-10 Thread Don Sturek
Hi Brian, Totally agree with you. In fact, I think Ray asked about the use case for unicast DNS within Homenet. I think locating service names in a small business, dormitory, etc. is that use case where mDNS does not scale well and where a globally unique name is maybe not necessary... Don

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-10 Thread Kerry Lynn
What I'm concerned about is using one protocol for internal name resolution and another for external. Bonjour, mDNS and multicast DNS are synonymous. mDNS is based on DNS-SD, which is a conventional use of *existing* DNS RR types for service discovery. mDNS uses DNS-like messages. I'm OK with

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-10 Thread Curtis Villamizar
In message 47437c06-fb3d-41ab-adb9-01a409164...@nominet.org.uk Ray Bellis writes: An interesting question has come up during the Arch Doc team's discussions around naming and service discovery: What in-home services actually require Unicast DNS lookup? [*] The one obvious case is

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-10 Thread james woodyatt
On Sep 10, 2012, at 05:34 , Ray Bellis ray.bel...@nominet.org.uk wrote: An interesting question has come up during the Arch Doc team's discussions around naming and service discovery: What in-home services actually require Unicast DNS lookup? [*] Really? How has the architecture team

Re: [homenet] Unicast DNS within the Homenet?

2012-09-10 Thread joel jaeggli
On 9/10/12 6:41 PM, james woodyatt wrote: On Sep 10, 2012, at 05:34 , Ray Bellis ray.bel...@nominet.org.uk wrote: An interesting question has come up during the Arch Doc team's discussions around naming and service discovery: What in-home services actually require Unicast DNS lookup? [*]