Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:25:27 -0800 From: Peter Heerboth <pheerboth@apple.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Working on howl port Message-ID: <1B251E0B-4C95-11D9-A057-000393CFACB0@apple.com> In-Reply-To: <41BB40B7.5000907@mac.com> References: <20041211090235.GD11190@webcom.it> <41BAC0BD.7000706@mac.com> <20041211102825.GB12803@webcom.it> <41BB40B7.5000907@mac.com>
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I'm not a zeroconf expert per se, but I would love to see FreeBSD have a great zeroconf implementation. Here are some things to think about. > > If your first implementation happens to leave the interface with a > 169.254 IP address, it's doing something it shouldn't, however that is > likely to be mostly harmless until you or someone has a chance to > improve the implementation. If a device does keep its link local address once it obtains a lease from a DHCP server or the user manually enters an address, it is important that it stops responding to A record queries with its 169.254/16 address. Depending upon the IP implementations of the other devices on the network, the freebsd box may appear unreachable. Imagine this situation: My freebsd box initially has a link local address, it later obtains a DHCP address on 10.0.1/24. Now other devices with 10.0.1/24 addresses on the network need to use services advertised on my freebsd box. If the multicast DNS daemon on the Freebsd box responds to A record queries for its host name with the 169.254/16 address, subsequent TCP connection attempts from a device without a link local address may quite possibly fail. I believe most mDNS implementations have interfaces to the multicast DNS daemon that allow the programmer to build a list of IP addresses resolved for a hostname by interface, but I'm not sure how many people are this thorough. Also, how is Freebsd going to handle IPv4 link local addresses on multi-homed hosts? Does FreeBSD have a notion of a "primary" interface like Mac OS X? If FreeBSD assigns v4 link-local address to all its interfaces, then the link-local address for each device on each network to which my FreeBSD device is attached must be unique across all networks, or the routing implications are obvious.
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