C. Scott Ananian wrote: > This is irrelevant, really. Protocols are designed with certain > assumptions. Those assumptions (mostly having to do with the behavior > and cost of broadcasts) were true when the protocols were designed, > and are no longer true today. This is the way of all software, it's > not unique to 802.11s in some way.
You make it look like there was an alternative to broadcasts in a peer to peer network, but I don't see any way out unless you want to have "master browsers" with elections in the best Windows workgroup tradition. Anyway, stuff that doesn't exist yet. >> Wait, are you perhaps suggesting to use DDNS to publish those services >> on a nameserver running on the XS? > > That is how DNS-SD works, yes. I do not understand the security side of it, and how old records get garbage collected unless you do a periodic refresh. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://www.sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel