Yes, indeed that was discussed in the DNSSD working group as a way to do
DNS service advertisement using DNS rather than mDNS.

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote:

>
> In message <20160510160757.13221.qm...@ary.lan>, "John Levine" writes:
> > >    Administrators should consider whether the lack of user-specified
> > >    hostnames is a drawback.
> > >
> > >This is not true - it would be trivial to allow the enduser to specify a
> > >few specific hostnames and deterministically auto generate the rest.
> >
> > Putting names into the zone is the easy part.  Deciding who's allowed to
> > add names and what names they're allowed to add is not.
>
> For reverse zones, UPDATE over TCP from the matching IP works and
> there are nameservers that support this and can be configured to
> only accept PTR records as well.
>
> It wouldn't be hard to add a EDNS option that says "remove if not
> refreshed after XXXX seconds" to the update request and the master
> server could maintain a time based list to clean up.
>
> One can do UPDATE over TCP self for PTR + KEY (or just KEY) and
> self using SIG(0) of PTR + KEY once the KEY is installed.  This
> allows the client to clean up after itself independent of the address
> the UPDATE request comes from.  Server implementations already
> support this.
>
> One can do update TCP self /48 (already implemented in some servers)
> (or any other configured prefix length) to install NS records or
> DNAME records to do "delegations" of either style.  Allow KEY to
> allow client cleanups.  The DHCP server can remove the delegation
> when the PD expires so you have cleanup.  The update self size needs
> to be tuned to the PD size.  If you want to add more moving parts
> the DHCP server can add the KEY which is supplied w/ the DHCP PD
> request.
>
> This is not hard to do.  We just need to pick what is reasonable
> to do and recommend it.  The customer side will appear once we
> recommend a approach.
>
> Border routers do the delgation while individual nodes to the self
> updates.
>
> Mark
>
> > R's,
> > John
> >
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