>actually, SLP seems like a much better fit than DNS for the
>problem of discovering hosts on an ad hoc network - not just
>because SLP is desinged to work without an third-party
>server but also because "service discovery" seems to fit the
>likely use model better than "host name lookup".
>
>in particular, you've got no good way of ensuring unique
>and meaningful host names for hosts on an ad hoc network -
>they can't assert their normal DNS names (even if they have
>such) because such assertions might conflict with DNS,
>or with one another - so it doesn't match DNS "one RRset
>per name" semantics at all. and the very notion of zero
>configuration seems to imply that such hosts don't know
>what their (human meaningful, user assigned) names are -
>they can at most advertise what service(s) they provide
>and their serial #s and let applications look for them.
you seem to be mixing two things up...
the former paragraph speaks about "discovery of DNS server", the
latter paragraph speaks about "name resolution under environment
without DNS server".
itojun
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