Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:58:59 -0400 From: Pat Lashley <patl@volant.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Fredrik Lindberg <fli+freebsd-net@shapeshifter.se> Subject: Re: Zeroconfig and Multicast DNS Message-ID: <086CEFFE8D3417F3400FF7B8@garrett.local>
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> Me too. :) The chief objection to mDNS (and other p2p types of dns > services) is the possibility of making it easier to hijack "real" websites. > I do not object (off hand) to a mechanism to define additional hostnames to > announce other than your own, but I think that we should do something like > unconditionally append .local to them to make sure that we're not creating a > bigger problem than we're solving. To do so, the hijacker would have to get onto your local link. For hardwired LANs, that shouldn't be a major issue. (If they're on your LAN, you're already screwed.) It's a much bigger problem for WiFi; especially when using a public access point. -Pat
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