name resolution

[Xen]

Ken D'Ambrosio schreef op 25-11-2017 17:58:

> Vastly better to use a discovery protocol like... oh,
> I dunno, Bonjour, or other zero-conf variants.  ;-)

Like NBNS used by Microsoft that Bonjour is apparently inspired on.

See, NBNS doesn't run on port 53.

In Windows, it never worked as a replacement for port 53.

You could have some NetBIOS name but you couldn't actually ping it.

I understand that extending this thing to proper TCP/IP is useful or 
perhaps necessary.

But in my experience there was never a conflict between NetBIOS (or 
NBNS) and normal DNS.

You did not have to choose between two evils. You could have both.

Even if NBNS (netbios name service) uses DNS packets I doubt there is 
much of a conflict in Windows implementations.

"ping" in Windows would never use ordinary DNS right.


> I haven't been following this thread, but after reading some of the
> e-mails, I'm afraid, Xen, that I have to back Liam, here.  He knows
> whereof he speaks.

Yeah but you are also speaking of the ancient past and missing the 
point.

The entire and only point I am making is that this is the first time for 
me that

"zeroconf"

Now intrudes upon ordinary DNS

(by way of the resolvers, not even by way of the protocol).



And that this is a choice you can change.

Again:


hosts:    files dns_local mdns_minimal dns



Done.