Re: Zeroconfig and Multicast DNS

2006-08-26 Thread Fredrik Lindberg
Pat Lashley wrote: Yes, I'm aware of this. And SD records in a multicast DNS environment should obey the rules of mDNS. The problem and thing we seem to disagree on is whether SD records outside the .local domain should be allowed to be resolved using mDNS by default. I have no problem with ha

Re: Zeroconfig and Multicast DNS

2006-08-26 Thread Pat Lashley
>> I would expect anyone using a real domain (as in using a real TLD, >> and a name registered at a domain registrar) to have a unicast DNS >> server. > > But those servers are typically outside the firewall (or in a DMZ). > Their purpose is to advertise the publicly visible hosts. The LAN(s) > be

Re: Zeroconfig and Multicast DNS

2006-08-26 Thread Fredrik Lindberg
Pat Lashley wrote: I would expect anyone using a real domain (as in using a real TLD, and a name registered at a domain registrar) to have a unicast DNS server. But those servers are typically outside the firewall (or in a DMZ). Their purpose is to advertise the publicly visible hosts. The LA

Re: Netgraph plumbing question

2006-08-26 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:19:04PM +0530, Rajkumar S wrote: > In the ng_split node is it possible to merge 2 incoming streams into > mixed, while all packets received at mixed goes via out? If merge node > does not support that, is there any other way to get the same result? > No, but it's trivial

Re: Zeroconfig and Multicast DNS

2006-08-26 Thread Pat Lashley
> What makes you think that there even IS a unicast DNS server for the > (sub)domain in question? I would expect anyone using a real domain (as in using a real TLD, and a name registered at a domain registrar) to have a unicast DNS server. But those servers are typically outside the firewall (o

Re: Netgraph plumbing question

2006-08-26 Thread Rajkumar S
On 8/26/06, Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: in addition arbtrarily complicated switching can be done with the ng_bpf node though it takes more to set it up. Thanks, I have a question related to the use of ng_bpf, I will post that in a seperate thread. there may be other nods that c

Re: Zeroconfig and Multicast DNS

2006-08-26 Thread Fredrik Lindberg
Pat Lashley wrote: > No, I don't think that there's any good reason to restrict mDNS service > discovery to .local; when you're using some other domain on the LAN, you > still want to easily do the dynamic service advertisement, even if the A > records are being handled by a traditional unicast