Are the MLD extensions for anycast written up somewhere? - Ralph
At 03:56 PM 4/30/2002 +0200, Hesham Soliman (ERA) wrote: > > > >> b) What's the security model by which the router decides > > whether to > > >> accept routing updates from the DNS server? > > > > > > The same model that is used between routers in the network. > > > > Right, so this approach adds a whole new set of boxes that > > can mess up > > your routing system. This does not strike me as a good thing. > >=> Which boxes does it add? I really don't see any more >boxes here. Note, I'm not advocating this particular >approach (injecting routes from the DNS) but I don't >agree with your claim above, and I think it can work. > >I think something like MLD extensions would be much cleaner. > > > > That's up to your implementation. The DNS is the only > > server using > > > this address, so you can tie them together. > > > > Sure. One can do the same kind of thing with the DHCP approach (use > > SO_REUSEPORT or whatever and tie the DHCP mini server to the DNS > > server). > >=> I believe you :), in fact, since you read the draft >(twice now ;) ) you would have seen that DHCP messages >were also considered for the 'content' part of the >discovery. > > > The point was just that exactly the same considerations apply to the > > anycast proposal as apply to other proposals. > >=> I think you're mixing the 'content' of the message >used for discovery and the method used for transporting >that message to the right server. Anycast does the latter. >So I don't know why you're comparing anycast with DHCP. >DHCP can also use anycast in theory, I never tried >it. > >Hesham >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List >IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng >FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng >Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
