Re: endpoint discovery from reverse DNS [Re: other comments on draft-nielsen-v6ops-3GPP-zeroconf-goals-00. txt

[Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@Sun.COM>]

On Nov 5, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Pekka Savola wrote:

>  The point is that the other admins don't know it exists when they 
> think of the problem they want to solve, and discredit the solution as 
> requiring manual insertion for the lack of better tools.

Honestly, this is FUD.

> Sure -- what I'm having difficulty understanding is why you're talking 
> about forward tree when the proposal was about reverse tree?

Because the fact that the suggested use of NAPTR is in the reverse tree 
DNS is irrelevant to the number of
packet exchange. In draft-yamamoto-naptr-service-discovery-00 the NAPTR 
record points to a name
that then must be resolve into an IPv4 address, thus the potential 
extra packet exchange that can be avoided
using the same 'trick' as CNAME, i.e. padding data in the additional 
section.

	- Alain,