Re: UPNP was:RE: myth of the great transition (was US Defense Departmentforma lly adopts IPv6)

2003-06-25 Thread John Stracke
Michel Py wrote:

In DNS you publish:
x.y.z.t server1.example.com
x.y.z.t server2.example.com
x.y.z.t server3.example.com
 

[...]

That's were the coolness is; no stinkin' port number.
 

You could publish URLs without port numbers if you could count on the 
clients recognizing SRV records.

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Re: UPNP was:RE: myth of the great transition (was US Defense Departmentforma lly adopts IPv6)

2003-06-25 Thread John Stracke
Keith Moore wrote:

] You could publish URLs without port numbers if you could count on the 
] cliens recognizing SRV records.

use of SRV records for apps that aren't specified to use them is a
violation of both those apps' protocols and the SRV specification.
 

Agreed.  But it's an option for people who need to build new apps to 
kludge around NATs.

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