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

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Alain Durand wrote:
> 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.

Whether true or not can be debated, but certainly something that would 
come up operationally.

...

A couple of afterthoughts..

From a higher view, another generic problem with reverse approach is 
that it does not work well (AFAICS) if the reverses have been 
delegated.  That will mean that each server has to do this 
configuration.  I don't know what's the typical procedure, but I'd 
expect e.g. bigger enterprises would have their own authorative 
servers for different bigger national branches, etc.  -- if yes, 
managing this information consistently is an operational challenge.

That said, the approach seems to be fairly good when you're only 
considering one administrative domain, and the tunnel point deployed 
in that administrative domain.  But isn't that scenario equally 
addressed with a DHCP option, using a more operator-friendly approach?

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