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> References: <44EAC40E.9000904@shapeshifter.se> <3E654CC0217F90E20FCD806E@garrett.local> <44EC90B7.6090908@shapeshifter.se> <44ECB0F2.9040300@FreeBSD.org> <44ECBB61.9020808@shapeshifter.se> <5D7785ADC030FEBFB9A5E69D@garrett.local> <44ED8266.1060303@shapeshifter.se> <7C6CDF1CB0BC58A6ADE1FCA8@garrett.local> <44EDCEC2.7060109@shapeshifter.se> <93381966E13B960D4ACFF05C@garrett.local>
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--gatW/ieO32f1wygP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --gatW/ieO32f1wygP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE7fCAXY6L6fI4GtQRApGkAJ427xN7rSTZ0gdTALUgtPpco8az4gCeKO/l ZsM6fX2UDSEh5n4Tbg3dmpA= =+PHY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gatW/ieO32f1wygP--
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