Juliusz Chroboczek <j...@irif.fr> writes: >> Why? What is wrong with the owner of the network selecting which devices >> / services he/she wants globally reachable > > I don't think this is about global reachability (which is hopefully > managed by PCP), it's about exporting names into the global DNS. We > ought to distinguish the two -- you can be remotely reachable without > publishing your name in the DNS.
Fair enough. >> without each device/service having to implement (and be configured for) >> an external naming provider? > > Roughly 100% of Homenet devices don't need a name in the global DNS -- > neither SIP, nor Skype, nor BitTorrent, nor syncthing, nor anything > else that normal people run in their home relies on the DNS for > locating remote peers. Well, those all work because they use a "giant MITM in the cloud" rendezvous point. If publishing things into global DNS worked reliably and automatically, and we had IPv6 everywhere, such designs would not be needed... > In the rare case where a device needs to be in the global DNS (and the > only case I can see is that of a web server), I'd much rather > configure that on the device itself than on the buggy web interface of > my ISP-provided CPE (or, even worse, "in the cloud"). Right, I can certainly see where you're coming from with this :) -Toke _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
