On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 14:01 +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 13:45 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 12:28 +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: > > > - it also has a _service. domain for autoconfiguration of > > > other services using SRV records. > > > > That's very nice. However, reading through it makes it seem extremely > > similar to the mechanism described by DNS-SD. Is there any particular > > reason to duplicate that effort? > > It *adds* to DNS-SD, which is why this draft is so short ;) > > dns-sd defines stuff like: > _http._tcp.<domainname> SRV ...... <host>
I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding you now, but that example seems like only DNS SRV, not DNS-SD. > This defines: > _website._service PTR _http._tcp.<domain> > PTR _https._tcp.<domain> Precisely; that seems very similar to the _services._dns-sd facility suggested by the DNS-SD document: <http://files.dns-sd.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-dns-sd.txt> It is also worth noticing that that document makes another interesting point: It is very seldomly (never?) interesting to find out all the service names for "a website". Browsers will typically know that they can handle e.g. HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, and there query the _http._tcp, _https._tcp and _ftp._tcp pointer entries as defined by dns-sd. See section 10 of the linked document for more info. Fredrik Tolf --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
