> On the computers I know, the stub resolver is in one shared library and > the SOCKS proxy is in another. What's the difference?
The SOCKS library uses a completely different data transport (one that is circuit-switched and layered over TCP), with very different capabilities from the usual packet-switched transport. Adding support for mDNS to the stub resolver makes no change to the way the actual data is pushed around. > You can run POP3 over ToR if you want to. You can also run POP3 over X.25. Shall we special-case .x25, and require all applications to use PF_X25 instead of PF_INET6 whenever they see a name ending in .x25? This essentially what RFC 7686 requires for .onion. > If we expect the client libraries to know that .homenet is special, it > doesn't matter what's in the root. I was under the impression that .homenet is handled entirely within the DNS resolver of the Homenet router, which combines: - an authoritative DNS server for .homenet; - a hybrid mDNS proxy; - a recursive DNS resolver for the rest of the namespace. In other words, I was assuming that we put enough Stenberg-Cheshire magic in the Homenet router's resolver to ensure that no host changes are necessary. If that is not the plan, then I'd appreciate a clarification. -- Juliusz _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
