On 12 Jun 2011, at 09:38, Fabio Mendes wrote:
> 2011/6/11 Matthew Palmer <mpal...@hezmatt.org>
>
>>
>> The router isn't assigning an address, it's merely telling everyone on the
>> segment what the local prefix and default route is. As such, there's no
>> reason why the router should try to register a DNS entry.
>>
>> On the other hand, the host could (and should) register it's address with
>> whatever DNS server handles it's name. The protocol for such is already
>> standardised and should be independent of IPv4/IPv6.
>>
>> - Matt
>>
>
> Thanks Matt.
>
> I was thinking about something like this, it looks the natural way to go,
> but isn't too dangerous allow hosts to update entries (even if it's their
> own) in an DNS server ?
>
> I preferred to believe that a router would do this because routers are
> considered to be more reliable than a hosts. In the other hand, I also
> recognize that this could put a lot of weight in routers' CPU processing.
Routers route packets, otherwise they would be called registrars or
something like that.
-as
