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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:31:29 -0500
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Pat Lashley <patl@volant.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Fredrik Lindberg <fli+freebsd-net@shapeshifter.se>
Subject:   Re: Zeroconfig and Multicast DNS
Message-ID:  <20060824183129.GB37561@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <93381966E13B960D4ACFF05C@garrett.local>
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:46:50AM -0400, Pat Lashley wrote:
> >> As I mentioned in an earlier posting, I would really like to see it
> >> support multiple TLDs for a single host. In particular, if I'm using
> >> example.com, then mumble.local and mumble.example.com should both
> >> resolve via mDNS to the IP address of host mumble. Similarly, services
> >> advertised by host mumble should automatically be listed in both domai=
ns.
> >
> >Well, $(hostname).example.com. A  $(ifaddr) :)
> >You would have to configure the NSS module to allow .com queries too.
>=20
> The NSS module shouldn't have to know which domains mDNS is handling. It=
=20
> should just attempt to resolve the FQDN given, using mDNS. If it fails,=
=20
> resolution will fall back to the next module listed in nsswitch.conf. (I=
=20
> envision the default as being: files mdns dns)

I don't know that you really want to trust random hosts to advertise
addresses in arbitrary domains.  That makes man in the middle attacks a
little too easy.

-- Brooks

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