RE: proposal for a compromise on DNS discovery

[Soohong Daniel Park <soohong.park@samsung.com>]

Please be sure that we didn't focus on only SOHO/Homenetwork.
I guess RA-based mechanism is more efficient in mobility than any cases.
Therefore, I would like say that we need both mechanisms for each
application domain.



Daniel (Soohong Daniel Park)
Mobile Platform Lab,SAMSUNG Electronics




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dnsop@cafax.se [mailto:owner-dnsop@cafax.se] On 
> Behalf Of Masataka Ohta
> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 7:53 PM
> To: Michael Richardson
> Cc: dnsop@cafax.se
> Subject: Re: proposal for a compromise on DNS discovery
> 
> 
> >     >> But, a DNS server will be?
> > 
> >     Daniel> Reality check: home networks are, if connected 
> to the Internet,
> >     Daniel> attached via a gatewaying device. The de vice 
> of choice for a
> >     Daniel> large number of networks is a $60 router from 
> on of any number of
> >     Daniel> vendors. These boxes provide DHCP, DNS forwarding and
> >     Daniel> NAT. Perhaps some other environment would 
> provide a better
> >     Daniel> strawman? DHCP is pretty prevalent in home networks.
> > 
> >   Right, exactly.
> > 
> >   I simply do not believe that there are environments where 
> there will 
> > be a local (on wire) DNS server, but not a local DHCP 
> server. The home 
> > environment is entirely the opposite - local DHCP server in SOHO 
> > router that gets the DNS info from the ISP via DHCP and/or PPP and 
> > passes it on via DHCP.
> 
> Right.
> 
> Assuming that there is DHCP server even at home, there is no 
> reason to have stateless (nor statefull) autoconfiguration by 
> ND, which is why IPv6 is broken.
> 
> However, there is still some configuration required at home 
> to let the local DHCP server gets the ISP via DHCP, but 
> definitely not by PPP, because PPP is for dial up over non-IP 
> infrastructure.
> 
> The simple way for home environment is to to let ISPs offer 
> the DNS servers for their customer sites, which was 
> impossible with addresses with site local scope.
> 
> 							Masataka Ohta
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