Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

[Ian Jackson <ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Keith Moore writes:
> LLMNR isn't a competitor to mDNS.  They attempt to address different 
> problems.

We see to be living in some kind of Alice Through the Looking Glass
world here.  The llmnr drafts are even called `-mdns-' !

> I favor adoption of LLMNR because in a world of disconnected and 
> intermittently connected networks there's a need for applications to 
> still be able to work - and being able to "work" includes being able to 
> lookup the same DNS names that the applications would normally use in a 
> connected network.

This is not what people are trying to deploy it for, and it is
distinctly unclear that LLMNR is at all the right answer for this
problem.

Ian.

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