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 to be entered into the nameserver for each device. > > It could be made as simple as BlueTooth associations are. > > It's probably true that a homenet router could be set up to allow for = > DNS updates from remote locations using a TSIG or SIG(0) signature. It = > might be nice to list this as a feature if we feel it can be specified = > cleanly. But as you say, it would be necessary for third party devices = > to implement this, and in order for them to do that they have to = > perceive a need. It could happen; I just don't think it's going to be = > valued enough to motivate people do make the effort required to set it = > up. I think there are a lot of steps between where we are now and an = > environment where people see the need for this.
MacOS already supports this so clearly someone at Apple thinks "there is a need". You turn on Active Directory in Windows and your machines will try to register themselves when on the road. This working group is looking at a paradigm shift in how home networking is done. We now have directly addressable machines on the home network. Publishing addresses to the world now makes sense for lots of reasons including we are now reachable. The "nobody is doing now" argument doesn't cut it here. Are we about enabling future development or styfling it? The world is slowly heading away from asymetric home links (cable/adls) to symetric home links (fibre) with enough bi-directional bandwidth for the home user to host whatever services that want to. We need to forward thinking enough to put in the infrastructure to support that. That means more than addresses being added to the DNS which is basically where integrated DNS/DHCP solutions stop. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
