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 web servers (i.e. CPE configuration) although
> a prior posting suggested that most people just use an IPv4 address (e.g.
> 192.168.1.1) rather than a DNS name for that. Many devices now support
> Bonjour for that.
Using literal addresses is evil for many reasons - surely we don't need to
discuss that ancient question again?
> If it can be shown that Unicast DNS is only need for resolution of _external_
> names then much of the discussion around _internal_ naming probably becomes
> moot.
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 converting names
to addresses, there would need to be a pretty strong case for anything else.
Brian
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