RE: Guidance needed on well known ports

["McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>]

Joe Touch wrote on Monday 20 March 2006:
> 
> Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
> >> From: Joe Touch [mailto:touch@ISI.EDU] 
> > 
> >> And with what port would I reach this magical DNS that would 
> >> provide the SRV record for the DNS itself?
> > 
> > You use fixed ports for the bootstrap process and only for 
> the bootstrap
> > process.
> 
> Which means that the DNS port needs to be well-known or fixed 
> in advance.
> 
> Some other issues to be considered:
> 
> 	- this change would make the DNS required for proper Internet
> 	operation, whereas it is currently optional (i.e., only for
> 	finding the IP address).]
> 

Zeroconf (which is widely deployed for ad-hoc networking and
SOHO networks) depends entirely on the premise that there is
NO available/configured DNS service.

Cheers,
- Ira


Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

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