[140686] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: user-relative names - was:[Re: Yahoo and IPv6]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Tue May 17 22:51:45 2011
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:51:39 -0700
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
--- joelja@bogus.com wrote:
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
> if you put something in the dns you do so because you want to discovered. scoping the nameservers such that they only express certain certain resource records to queriers in a particular scope is fairly straight forward.
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> The article was not about DNS. It was about "Persistent Personal Names for Globally Connected Mobile Devices" where "Users normally create personal names by introducing devices locally, on a common WiFi network for example. Once created, these names remain persistently bound to their targets as devices move. Personal names are intended to supplement and not replace global DNS names."
you mean like mac addresses? those have a tendency to follow you around in ipv6...
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Still an IPv6 wussie... :-)
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Only if you design your network that way. EUI-64 isn't required.
scott
