[Sugar-devel] Service announcement scheme - (Re: A small request.)

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:17 AM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
>>> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/4489030/4489031/04489571.pdf?temp=x
>>>
>>> I don't want adventure. I want something old and safe ;-)
>>>
>>> Maybe we can fake this with good old DNS lookups - but those will fail
>>> if the DNS server has a wildcard (like commercial hotspots do).
>>
>> I think you are confusing mDNS with DNS-SD.
>
> Perhaps. The paper abstract mentions both, and seems to say that the
> solution is with DNS-SD+new software. There's another paper from the
> same authors that talks about saturation in mesh networks.
>
> I'd like to read that paper (anyone got access to IEEE pubs?) . In
> fact, I'd like to find that someone has implemented DNS-SD on 802.11s
> networks and had a raging success. I want it simple and safe :-)

802.11s is not simple, nor safe.

Please concentrate on plain 802.11 networks for now.
 --scott

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