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

[Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@sun.com>]

Pekka Savola wrote:

> 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?

The practical problem with the DHCP approach is that you need to update 
both the DHCP server
and all the DHCP clients, which is very difficult because of all the 
legacy systems.
In a typical home network, the soho router act as the local DHCP server 
for the local hosts,
and it also sometimes act as a DHCP client to get config from the ISP.
In that scenario, using DHCP won't work unless you are ready to change 
all the CPEs...

So I echo what Karen said, DHCP is not a practical avenue.

   - Alain.