Stuart Cheshire's submission for a longterm solution to mDNS (Bonjour) issues.
Please review and submit your comments via the mdnsext mailing list: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mdnsext Thanks. -Neil -- Neil Johnson Network Engineer The University of Iowa Phone: 319 384-0938 Fax: 319 335-2951 Mobile: 319 540-2081 E-Mail: neil-john...@uiowa.edu On 1/26/13 12:04 AM, "Stuart Cheshire" <chesh...@apple.com> wrote: >I have submitted a new Internet Draft that proposes a way to address the >mdnsext problem. > >Please review and give feedback. > >Title: Hybrid Unicast/Multicast DNS-Based Service Discovery >Creation date: 2013-01-25 >WG ID: Individual Submission >Number of pages: 7 >URL: >http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-cheshire-mdnsext-hybrid-00.txt >Status: >http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cheshire-mdnsext-hybrid >Htmlized: >http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-mdnsext-hybrid-00 > > >Abstract: > Performing DNS-Based Service Discovery using purely Multicast DNS > allows discovery only of services present on the local link. Using a > very large local link with thousands of hosts improves service > discovery, but at the cost of large amounts of multicast traffic. > > Performing DNS-Based Service Discovery using purely Unicast DNS is > more efficient, but requires configuration of DNS Update keys on the > devices offering the services, which can be onerous for simple > devices like printers and network cameras. > > Hence a compromise is needed, that provides easy service discovery > without requiring either large amounts of multicast traffic or > onerous configuration. > >Stuart Cheshire > >_______________________________________________ >mdnsext mailing list >mdns...@ietf.org >https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mdnsext ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
